Library of the Gray Herbarium
SEMI-HISTORIC LETTERS - L
| Last Name | First Name | Dates | Amount | Notes | See Also | Birth and Death Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacaita | Charles Carmichael | 1927 | 5 | 1853-1933 | ||
| Lachot | Henri | 1920 | 1 | 1850-? | ||
| Lagerheim | Nils Gustaf | ca. 1899 | 1 | 1 mimeographed letter. | 1860-1926 | |
| Lagorce | Jean Frange | Hioram, Brother. | ||||
| Lahman | Bertha Marion | 1904 | 4 | Includes a lengthy plant list. | 1872-? | |
| Lalonde | Louis | 1925-1966 | 152 | Includes 1 letter from the Herbier P. Louis-Marie; 8 snapshots of field trips; clipping about Jacques Rousseau. Also known as Pere Louis-Marie. | 1896-? | |
| Lam | Herman Johannes | 1952-1961 | 14 | 1892-1977 | ||
| Lamb | Frank Haines | 1895-1897 | 9 | Includes 1 plant list. | 1875-? | |
| Lambert | Fred Drayton | 1908-1932 | 7 | Includes 2 letters from Mary I. Lambert (Mrs. F.D. Lambert), 1931-1932. | 1871-1931 | |
| Lamson-Scribner | Frank | 1892-1906 | 11 | Historic Letters database; Allen, Oscar Dana, SH 1. | 1851-1938 | |
| Lanby | A. ? | 1903-1907 | 4 | Includes 1 mimeographed questionnaire on herbaria, n.d. | ? | |
| Landes | Hugh | Northcraft, Richard Dunn, SH 3. | ||||
| Landfield | J. B. ? | 1902 | 1 | ? | ||
| Landmark | Joh. D. ? | 1925 | 2 | ? | ||
| Lane | Alfred Church | 1911-1933 | 23 | 1863-1948 | ||
| Lane | Asa Lyman | 1899-1900 | 3 | ?-1920 | ||
| Lane | C. Chester | 1908-1919 | 22 | ? | ||
| Lane | William Coolidge | 1892-1928 | 81 | Inlcudes 3 circulars about union list of periodicals in Boston area libraries, 1914, 1916, n.d. | 1859-1931 | |
| Laney | Calvin Cooke | 1904 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lange | Johan Martin Christian | n.d. | 1 | 1 letter from his widow offering to sell his herbarium. | Historic Letters database. | 1818-1898 |
| Langley | Samuel Pierpont | 1892-1895 | 3 | Historic Letters database. | 1834-1906 | |
| Langlois | Auguste Barthelemy | Thomas Morong inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database. | 1832-1900 | |||
| Lankester | Charles Herbert | 1945-1947 | 20 | 1879-1969 | ||
| Lanman | Charles Rockwell | White, George Robert, SH 4. | 1850-1941 | |||
| Lansing | Odelle Edward | 1911-1913 | 2 | 1867-1918 | ||
| Lapham | Julia A. ? | 1897-1910 | 2 | 1 letter from Mary J. Lapham. | ? | |
| Larderaz | Ch. ? | 1931 | 3 | ? | ||
| Larrabee | Rollin North | R.N. Larrabee inventory in Archives Guide. | 1863-1902 | |||
| Larsen | Esther Louise | 1925-1935 | 4 | 1901- | ||
| Latcham | Ricardo Eduardo | 1934 | 1 | 1869-? | ||
| Lauder | Maria Elise Touffe | 1899 | 4 | ? | ||
| Laughlin | Emma G. | Rood, Almon Nicholson, SH 3. | ||||
| Laurent | Joseph | 1924 | 1 | ? | ||
| Laurent | Louis Aime Alexandre | 1924 | 4 | 1873-? | ||
| Lawrance | Alexander E. | 1932-1933 | 4 | Gleason, Henry Allan, SH 2, Folder 5. | ? | |
| Lawrence | Amory Appleton | 1907-1912 | 13 | 1848-1912 | ||
| Lawrence | Julia Ruth | 1934 | 1 | 1906- | ||
| Lawrence | William | 1923 | 1 | 1850-1941 | ||
| Lawrence | William Evans | 1909-1932 | 9 | 1883-1950 | ||
| Lawson | George | 1893-1895 | 3 | Historic Letters database. | 1827-1895 | |
| Leavitt | Robert Greenleaf | 1899-1932 | 40 | 1865-1942 | ||
| Le Baron | John Francis | 1901 | 1 | 1847-? | ||
| Lecomte | Henri | 1919-1934 | 45 | Also known as Paul Henri Lecomte. | 1856-1934 | |
| Leduc | G. ? | 1914 | 2 | ? | ||
| Lee | George Winthrop | 1903-1920 | 11 | Includes 4 circulars or bulletins pertaining to the Boston Co-operative Information Bureau, 1913-1920. | ? | |
| Lee | John Thomas | 1911-1930 | 7 | ? | ||
| Lee | Joseph | 1920 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lee | Leslie Alexander | 1895-1902 | 7 | Includes 1 letter from his daughter, Elizabeth B. Lee, 1901. | 1852-1908 | |
| Lee | Tchang Bok | n.d. | 1 | 1 Christmas card. Also known as Yi Chang-bok. |
1919- | |
| Leeds | Arthur Newlin | 1927-1938 | 8 | 1870-1939 | ||
| Leeson | Joseph Robert | 1903-1926 | 17 | ? | ||
| Leeson | Robert A. ? | 1907-1920 | 6 | ? | ||
| Lefevre | Jacques | 1921 | 4 | ? | ||
| Leffingwell | Edith D. ? | 1916 | 1 | ? | ||
| Leggett | William Henry | 1877-1879 | 2 | Historic Letters database; G. E. Davenport inventory in Archives Guide. | 1816-1882 | |
| Lehmann | Ernst | 1928 | 3 | ? | ||
| Leiberg | John Bernard | 1895 | 1 | 1853-1913 | ||
| Leighton | James M. ? | 1896-1900 | 5 | ? | ||
| Lemmon | John Gill | 1883 | 1 | 1 postcard. | Historic Letters database. | 1832-1908 |
| Lemmon | Sara Allen Plummer | 1909 | 2 | Historic Letters database. | 1836-1923 | |
| Leonard | A. A. N. ? | 1899 | 1 | 1 postcard re her husband, Henry Codman Leonard. | ? | |
| Leonard | Emery Clarence | 1928-1946 | 9 | 1892-? | ||
| Leonard | Henry Codman | Leonard, A.A.N., SH 2. | ||||
| Leonard | M. C. ? | 1900 | 1 | ? | ||
| Leonhardt | Otto | 1925-1927 | 5 | ? | ||
| Lepeschkin | Wladimir Wasiljewitsch | 1928 | 3 | 1876-? | ||
| Lermond | Norman W. ? | 1921-1925 | 3 | ?-1944 | ||
| Leslie | Alice Cushing | 1926 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lesquereux | Leo | Also known as Charles Leo Lesquereux. | T.P. James inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database. | 1806-1889 | ||
| LeSueur | W. D. ? | 1910 | 1 | ? | ||
| Letson | Elizabeth Jane | 1904 | 1 | ?-1919 | ||
| Leveille | Hector | 1901-1918 | 10 | Includes circular advertising Flore du Kouy-Tcheou, 1914-1915. Also known as Augustin Abel Hector Leveille. |
Valbray, M. de, SH 4. | 1863-1918 |
| Leverett | Frank | 1925-1937 | 3 | 1859-1943 | ||
| Levine | Carl Oscar | 1916-1917 | 7 | Includes 1 letter from George Weidman Groff, 1917. | 1887-1928 | |
| Levine | Michael Simonovitch | 1915 | 5 | 1886-1952 | ||
| Lewis | Adele Gerard | Grant, Adele Gerard (nee Lewis) | ||||
| Lewis | Charles Smith | 1922-1923 | 11 | 1868-1942 | ||
| Lewis | Ivey Foreman | 1915-1939 | 24 | Includes a circular about establishing a system of biological abstracts, 1923. | Union of American Biological Societies, SH 4. | 1882-1964 |
| Limberger | William B. | 1904-1919 | 3 | ? | ||
| Lincoln | Edwin Hale | 1897-1938 | 43 | ? | ||
| Lindahl | Josua | 1897 | 1 | 1 postcard. Also known as Johan Harald Josua Lindahl. |
1844-1912 | |
| Lindau | Gustav | 1897-1902 | 3 | 1866-1923 | ||
| Linder | David Hunt | 1922-1945 | 15 | 1899-1946 | ||
| Lindman | Carl Axel Magnus | 1927 | 7 | 1856-1928 | ||
| Lindquist | Bertil | 1945-1947 | 12 | 1904- | ||
| Lippincott | Charles Duell | 1897 | 1 | 1841-1926 | ||
| Little | Clarence Cook | 1911 | 5 | 1888-1971 | ||
| Little | Elbert Luther, Jr. | Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide. | 1907- | |||
| Litwinow | Dimitrij Iwanowitsch | 1906 | 3 | 1854-1929 | ||
| Livingston | Luther Samuel | Cole, Emma Jane, SH 1. | 1864-1914 | |||
| Lloyd | Curtis Gates | 1893-1926 | 19 | Includes death notice. | Historic Letters; W. Deane inventory (pp.2,3,19,39,50) in Archives Guide. | 1859-1926 |
| Lloyd | George N. ? | Manuscript Case listing in Archives Guide. | ? | |||
| Lloyd | John Uri | 1892-1906 | 2 | 1849-1936 | ||
| Lochman | Charles Lightheiser | 1896 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lock | Robert Heath | 1912 | 1 | Peradeniya (Ceylon), SH 3. | 1879-1915 | |
| Locke | Elsie | 1908-1920 | 46 | 46 letters, many n.d., ca. 1908-1920. | ? | |
| Loesener | Theodor | 1896-1923 | 17 | 2 letters (1901 and 1902) are cosigned by Adolf Engler. Also known as Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener. |
1865-1941 | |
| Logue | Everett G. ? | 1930 | 2 | ? | ||
| Lombardo | Atilio | 1937-1941 | 8 | (of Uruguay) | ||
| Long | Bayard henry | 1909-1950 | 1,005 | clippings,1970 plus one plant list, 1918-1920 | 1885-1969 | |
| Long | Charles Albert Eugene | 1919-1922 | 26 | 1870- (of Martinicus, Maine) | ||
| Loomis | Martha Louise | 1909-1922 | 61 | 1841-1935 | ||
| Looser | Gualterio | 1927-1934 | 139 | includes spanish translation of agreements from 5th pan-Pacific Scientific Congress,1933; 9 plant lists; news clipping re: map of Chile, 1928 | 1898- | |
| Lord | Frederic Pomeroy | 1940 | 1 | 1876- | ||
| Lorenz | Annie | 1900-1925 | 18 | Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide | 1879-1927 | |
| Loring | Charles Greely | no date | 1 | Historic Letters database; Thaddeus Wm. Harris inventory in Archives Guide | ca. 1927-1902 | |
| Loring [Mrs. Charles G.] | Mary H. | 1906 | 1 | (of Boston) | ||
| Lotsy, | T. P. |
1895 | 1 | (of Baltimore) | ||
| Louis-Marie | Pere | See: Lalonde, Louis | ||||
| Louth | E.V. | 1897-1925 | 3 | (of Ashtabula, Ohio) | ||
| Love | Cornelia Spencer | 1932-1933 | 3 | 1892- (of Chapel Hill, North Carolina) | ||
| Love | H. H. | 1927 | 4 | (of Toronto) | ||
| Lovell | Harvey Bulfinch | See: Lovell, John Harvey (1860-1939) | 1903- | |||
| Lovell | John Harvey | 1913-1939 | 20 | 2 letters are co-signed by his son, Harvey Bulfinch Lovell | 1860-1939 | |
| Lovewell | H. P. | 1928-1932 | 9 | several letters are undated | (of Providence, Rhode Island) | |
| Lowell, | Abbott Lawrence | 1909-1935 | 64 | includes one letter from Leonard Wood with a description of the Philippine Bureau of Science, 1922 | 1856-1943 | |
| Lowell | Guy | 1902-1903 | 12 | plus a blueprint of Divinity Avenue land | 1870-1927 | |
| Lowell | James Arnold | 1926 | 1 | 1869-1933 | ||
| Lowell | Jennie P. | 1914 and 1920 | 2 | (of Newburyport, Massachusetts) | ||
| Lowell | John Amory | See: Merrill, Elmer Drew (1876-1956) in Semi-Historic letters database | Historic Letters database | 1798-1881 | ||
| Lowell | Lucy | no date | 1 | concerns her grandfather's books (George Barrell Emerson) | (of Massachusetts) | |
| Lowenstein | Albert Edgar | 1916-1920 | 8 | includes one illustration; in 1917 he changed his name to Albert Edgar Lownes | 1899- | |
| Lowes | John L. ? | 1925 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lown | Clarence | G.E. Davenport inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database. | ? | |||
| Lownes | Albert Edgar | Lowenstein, Albert Edgar. | ||||
| Lowry | John J.? | William Baldwin inventory in Archives Guide. | ||||
| Lucas | Frederic Augustus | 1894-1896 | 3 | 1852-1929 | ||
| Lucy | Thomas Francis | 1895-1900 | 2 | 1844-1906 | ||
| Luebkert | Otto J. J. ? | 1898-1902 | 5 | ? | ||
| Lueders | Herman Frederick | 1896-1901 | 3 | 1861-1904 | ||
| Luerssen | Christian | Manuscript Case listing in Archives Guide. | 1843-1916 | |||
| Lufkin | Frank | 1897-1905 | 3 | ? | ||
| Lumholz | Carl Sophus | 1893-1911 | 51 | Historic Letters database. | 8151-1922 | |
| Lundell | Cyrus Longworth | 1931-1935 | 36 | Includes 2 plant lists. | 1907- | |
| Lunnell | Joel | 1899-1918 | 41 | W. Deane papers in Archives Guide (pp.2,3,19,39,50);Piper, C.V., SH 3, folder 5. | 1851-1920 | |
| Lunt | Joseph Richard | 1912-1917 | 5 | 1883-1941 | ||
| Lupo | Patsy Hughes | 1922 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lutz | Louis Charles | 1912 | 1 | 1871-? | ||
| Lyman | Charles H., Jr., Mrs. | 1903 | 2 | ? | ||
| Lyman | Florence van Fleet | 1909 | 4 | ? | ||
| Lyman | George Richard | 1902-1917 | 12 | 1871-1926 | ||
| Lynge | Bernt Arne | 1924-1941 | 56 | Includes a photo of his summer home (1931) and of his daughter (1933). | 1884-1942 | |
| Lyns | H. ? | 1913 | 1 | ? | ||
| Lythgoe | Hermann Charles | 1915 | 2 | 1874-? |
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