Library of the Gray Herbarium
SEMI-HISTORIC LETTERS - M
| Last Name | First Name | Dates | Amount | Notes | See Also | Birth and Death Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McAdie | Mary Randolph Browne | 1918 | 1 | ? | ||
| Macbride | James | Stephen Elliott inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1784-1817 | |||
| Macbride | James Francis | 1914-1950 | 213 | Includes copy of Expose General on the reorg. of botanical instruction in Geneva on the death of Professor Chodat;2 clippings;2 plant lists;exploration notes. | Sweetser, Albert Raddin, SH 4. | 1892-? |
| Macbride | Thomas Huston | 1891-1903 | 12 | 1848-1934 | ||
| Mccalla | William Copeland | 1899 | 1 | 1872-1962 | ||
| McClatchie | Alfred James | 1895-1898 | 6 | ?-1906 | ||
| McClench | Christine N.? | 1941 | 1 | ? | ||
| McConnell | Richard George | 1917 | 1 | 1857-? | ||
| McCrady | Louisa L. ? | 1912-1921 | 10 | ? | ||
| McCulloch | W. K. ? | 1929 | 2 | ? | ||
| McDermott | Laura Frances | 1908-1909 | 4 | ? | ||
| McDonald | Francis Eugene | 1895-1917 | 15 | Chase, Virginius Heber, SH 1 | 1860-1920 | |
| MacDougal | Daniel Trembly | 1892-1926 | 54 | 1865-1958 | ||
| McFarland | Frank Theodore | 1913-1925 | 8 | 1886-? | ||
| McFarland | John Horace | 1928-1936 | 4 | 1859-1948 | ||
| Macfarlane | Eileen Jessie | Grimes, Eileen Jessie or Erlanson, Eileen Jessie. | ||||
| Macfarlane | John Muirhead | 1904-1934 | 14 | 1855-1943 | ||
| McGann | Marion Duneau | no dates | 2 | (of Nantucket) | ||
| McGee | William John | 1899 | 1 | 1853-1912 | ||
| McGrath | Patrick Thomas, Sir | 1895-1928 | 21 | ms of "Botanical Evidence of Marine Conditions in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador" by M. L. Fernald, 1926 |
1868- (of Newfoundland) | |
| McGregor | Ernest Alexander | 1909 | 1 | 1880- | ||
| McGregor | Richard Crittenden | 1911-1920 | 3 | 1871-1936 | ||
| McIlhenny | J. W. | 1921 | 1 | regarding book of botanical specimens by his grandfather, John Christie | circa 1840; (of Louisville, Kentucky) | |
| McInnes | William | 1916-1922 | 10 | plus a map of Kietwatin | 1858-1925 | |
| MacKay | Alexander Howard | 1900-1922 | 7 | 1848-1929 | ||
| McKee | Roland | 1925 and 1926 | 2 | 1800- | ||
| MacKeever | Frank C | 1951-1964 | 32 | plus 1 plant list and 12 notices of specimen shipments from the New York Botanical Garden | (of New York) | |
| Mackenzie | Kenneth Kent | 1904-1934 | 308 | ms of review by Mackenzie, 1925; excerpt from a note on Carex, 1922 See: Nomeclature (International Congress) |
Nelmes, Ernest (1895-1959); Chas. Alfred Weatherby inventory Archives Guide | 1877-1934 |
| Mackenzie | Roderick | 1897 | 2 | (of Cornwall) | ||
| McKim | Haslett | 1897 | 1 | 1842-1908 | ||
| Mackintosh | Richards Bryant | 1901-1936 | 4 | 1865- | ||
| McLean | Forman Taylor | 1925 | 1 | 1885- | ||
| McLean | G (?) M. | 1906 | 1 | (of Boxford, Massachusetts) | ||
| Macloskie | George | 1900-1906 | 17 | 1834-1919 | ||
| MacMillan | Conway | 1894-1905 | 22 | Historic Letters database | 1867-1929 | |
| MacMillan | Donald Baxter | 1923-1925 | 5 | 1874-1970 | ||
| McMillan | Smith(?) Endicott | 1911 | 1 | (of New Hampshire) | ||
| Macnamara | Charles | 1926 | 2 | (of Ontario) | ||
| McNeill | Jerome | 1917 | 1 | 1857- | ||
| Mc Neill | L. H. | 1914 | 1 | (of Mobile, Alabama) | ||
| McNeily | Alex J. W. | 1911 | 1 | (of Newfoundland) | ||
| McNutt | MKyron | See: Potter, Mrs. William F. | ||||
| Macoun | James Melville | 1891-1919 | 283 | Includes 2 letters by John Macoun, April and June 1905; 1 plant list from period 1891-1898 | Historic Letters database | 1862-1920 |
| Macoun | John | See: James Franklin Collins, Henry Griswold Jesup and Thomas Morong inventories in Archives Guide; Historic Letters Database | James Melville Macoun | 1831-1920 | ||
| Macoun | William Tyrrell | 1903 and 1921 | 2 | 1869-1933 | ||
| MacOwan | Peter | 1892-1907 | 21 | plus a bibliography | Historic Letters database | 1830-1909 |
| MacPherson | James | 1879-1909 | 13 | plus a plant list; "Landscape Garden Groups", 1909 | (of Trenton, New Jersey) | |
| MacRobert | Edna A. | 1906 | 1 | (of Vera Cruz, Mexico) | ||
| Madigan | Albert W. | 1903 | 1 | (of Houlton, Maine) | ||
| Madison | Harold Lester | 1916-1921 | 9 | 1878-1950(of Providence, RI & Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Magnier | Charles | 1897 | 1 | It is a postcard. | (of Saint-Quentin, France) | |
| Magnus | Paul Wilhelm | 1906 | 1 | 1844-1914 | ||
| Magocsy-Dietz | Sandor | 1907 | 1 | 1855-1945 | ||
| Maheshwari | J. K. | 1965 and no date | 2 | (of India) | ||
| Maheshwari | Panchanan | 1954-1956 | 7 | 1904-1966 | ||
| Maiden | Joseph Henry | 1899-1923 | 33 | plus a long list of desiderata | 1859-1925 | |
| Maignen | P. A. | 1925 | 1 | (of Philadelphia) | ||
| Main [Mrs. A. H.] | Angie Kumlien | 1927 | 1 | (of Wisconsin) | ||
| Mains | Edwin Butterworth | 1922-1952 | 30 | 1890- | ||
| Maldonado | Teodoro | See William Jameson inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Malme | Gustaf Oskar Andersson | 1930-1937 | 14 | also a death notice, 1937; Until 1891, he was known as G.O. Andersson. | 1864-1937 | |
| Malta | Nikolajs | 1928 | 1 | 1890-1944 or 1945 | ||
| Malte | Malte Oscar | 1913-1933 | 131 | plus 2 plant lists; See Plant Lists Box 1 in Archives Guide | Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide | 1880-1933 |
| Manda | W. Albert | 1895 and 1899 | 2 | Historic Letters database | 1862-1933 | |
| Manly | [Mrs. W. E.] | 1920 | 2 | (of Iowa and Ohio) | ||
| Mann | Albert | 1904(?) and 1924 | 2 | See: Merrill, Edward Bagley (1835-1920) | Historic Letters database | 1853-1935 |
| Mann | Alfred | 1894 | 2 | (of Arizona) | ||
| Mann | Benjamin Pickman | 1887-1892 | 3 | Historic Letters database | 1848-1926 | |
| Mann | G. | 1903 | 1 | (of Ottawa ) | ||
| Mann | George C. | 1903-1915 | 3 | (of Massachusetts) | ||
| Mann | Gustav | 1898 | 1 | 1836-1916 | ||
| Mann | Horace | See: Horace Mann inventory in Archives Guide | Historic Letters database | 1844-1868 | ||
| Mann | Rhoda L. | 1902 | 1 | (of Massachusetts) | ||
| Manning | Robert | 1895-1897 | 6 | Historic Letters database | (of Boston) | |
| Manning | Warren Henry | 1883-1936 | 37 | 1860-1938 | ||
| Mansfield | Nellie F. ? | 1902 | 1 | ? | ||
| Marcou | Jules | 1893 | 1 | 1 letter to Alice Gray. | 1824-1898 | |
| Marie-Victorin | Frere | 1912-1944 | 230 | Includes 1 plant list. Also known as Kirouac, Conrad. |
1885-1944 | |
| Mark | Edward Laurens | 1892-1917 | 17 | 1847-? | ||
| Marr | John | 1905 | 1 | ? | ||
| Marr | R. A. ? | 1910 | 2 | ? | ||
| Marsh | Charles Dwight | 1929 | 2 | 1855-1932 | ||
| Marshall | Jno ? | 1910-1914 | 5 | Letters written for Victoria Memorial Museum (Canada). | ? | |
| Marshall | Mary Alice | 1922-1924 | 3 | ? | ||
| Marshall | Nina Lovering | 1901 | 1 | ? | ||
| Marston | C. L. ? | 1904 | 3 | ? | ||
| Martin | Edgar Stanley | 1920 | 7 | 7 letters and draft and printed version of a Boy Scout merit badge on botany. | 1873-1940 | |
| Martin | Robert F. ? | 1934-1942 | 24 | ? | ||
| Martindale | Isaac Comly | 1892 | 1 | 1842-1893 | ||
| Mason | Charles F.? | 1894-1921 | 41 | Historic Letters database. | ? | |
| Mason | Herbert Louis | 1924-1937 | 66 | Includes 1 letter from Lincoln Constance, 1933. | 1896-? | |
| Mason | Otis Tufton | 1901 | 2 | 1838-1908 | ||
| Mason | Silas Cheever | 1909-1910 | 1857-1935 | |||
| Massart | J. ? and M. ? | 1929 | 3 | ? | ||
| Mathews | Ferdinand Schuyler | 1897-1935 | 153 | Includes account statements and menu for American Ornithologists' Union dinner. | 1854-1938 | |
| Mathiew | Beltran | 1925 | 2 | Draft and typed copy of letter to him. | ? | |
| Matsuda | S. ? | n.d. | 1 | 1 postcard. | ? | |
| Mattfeld | Johannes | 1921-1937 | 12 | 1895-1951 | ||
| Matthew | George Frederick | 1911-1912 | 2 | 1837-1923 | ||
| Mattirolo | Oreste | 1900 | 1 | 1856-1947 | ||
| Maxon | William Ralph | 1897-1946 | 1927 | Includes 8 plant lists. | Historic Letters database;G.E. Davenport and C.A. Weatherby inventories. | 1877-1948 |
| Mayer | Alfred Goldsborough | 1901-1911 | 4 | One letter undated. | 1868-1922 | |
| Mayhew | Inez P. ? | 1921 | 2 | 1 letter and note on white grapes on Martha's Vineyard. | ? | |
| Mayo | Lawrence Shaw | 1919 | 2 | 1888-1947 | ||
| Maza y Jimenez | Manuel Gomez de la | 1899-1905 | 10 | Also known as Gomez de la Maza y Jimenez, Manuel. | 1867-1916 | |
| Mazurenko | T. ? | 1920 | 1 | ? | ||
| Mead | Eleanor M. ? | 1905-1921 | 16 | Also includes 2 specimens. | ? | |
| Mead | Frederick Sumner | 1922-1932 | 27 | 1866-1935 | ||
| Meader | Arthur R.? | 1899-1905 | 4 | ? | ||
| Mears | Ellis | 1914-1916 | 3 | Includes 1 undated note on a plant. | Historic Letters database. | ? |
| Medvedeff | J. | 1900-1903 | 2 | ? | ||
| Meehan | Thomas | 1886-1902 | 60 | 11 letters, 1892-1902, from Thomas Meehan & Sons, publishers of Meehan's Monthly. | Historic Letters database. | 1826-1901 |
| Meeken | Harvey L. ? | 1932 | 2 | ? | ||
| Mehner | Albert | 1905 | 1 | ? | ||
| Meier | Fred Campbell | 1921 | 1 | 1893-1938 | ||
| Mell | Clayton Dissinger | 1931 | 1 | 1875-1945 | ||
| Mell | Patrick Hues | 1896 | 3 | 1850-1918 | ||
| Mellichamp | Joseph Hinson | Canby, William Marriott, SH 1; Historic Letters database;T. Morong inventory. | 1829-1903 | |||
| Menestrina | J. F. ? | 1901 | 1 | ? | ||
| Menin (?) | J. Warren | George Edward Davenport inventory. | ? | |||
| Menzel | Robert Winston | 1939-1945 | 11 | Includes 3 plant lists. | 1920- | |
| Merriam | Clinton Hart | 1898-1908 | 6 | 1855-1942 | ||
| Merrill | Arthur | 1902 | 1 | Brother of Elmer Drew Merrill. | ? | |
| Merrill | Edward Bagley | 1904-1913 | 8 | 2 of these, 1904, concern Albert Mann. | 1835-1920 | |
| Merrill | Elmer Drew | 1899-1945 | 254 | Extensive collection. See Reference Librarian for more details. | Merrill inventory in Archives Guide; Eaton, Amos, SH 1. | 1876-1956 |
| Merrill | George Knox | 1913-1914 | 2 | 1864-1927 | ||
| Merrill | George Perkins | Maxon, William Ralph, SH 3, folder 29. | 1854-1929 | |||
| Merrill | Henry Wilson | 1895 | 1 | 1859-1944 | ||
| Merrill | John D.? | 1925-1939 | 6 | ? | ||
| Merrill | John D. ? | 1925-1939 | 6 | ? | ||
| Merrill | L. H. ? | 1901 | 1 | ? | ||
| Merrill | William W.? | Babcock, D. M., Mrs., SH 1. | ? | |||
| Merrow | Harriet Lathrop | 1891-1912 | 3 | 1858-? | ||
| Meslin | Roger | 1927 | 1 | 1 postcard. | ? | |
| Messer | C.? | 1903-1906 | 2 | ? | ||
| Metcalf | Franklin Post | 1917-1937 | 25 | 1892-? | ||
| Metcalf | Haven | 1904-1910 | 4 | 1875-1940 | ||
| Metcalf | Rest H. ? | 1902 | 3 | Mrs. R.E. Metcalf. | ? | |
| Metcalfe | Orrick Baylor | 1905 | 3 | 1879-? | ||
| Mexia | Ynes Enriquetta Julietta | 1926-1936 | 34 | Includes 2 Christmas cards with photos of trees by Mexia, 1930 & 1934, 1 list of photos by Mexia (1928), and 1 plant list, 1928. | Mexia inventory in Archives Guide. | 1870-1938 |
| Mez | Carl Christian | 1894-1934 | 9 | 1866-1944 | ||
| Michael | Norman (Rev.) | 1922-1925 | 17 | Includes 2 plant lists. | ? | |
| Michailoff | M. ? | Kieff, Jardin Botanique, SH 2. | ||||
| Michaux | Francois Andre | Stephen Elliott inventory in Archives Guide. | 1770-1855 | |||
| Michel | Christy William | 1912 | 1 | 1881- | ||
| Micheli | Marc | 1900-1902, n.d. | 7 | Includes 1 plant list. | 1844-1902 | |
| Milde | Julius | Also known as Carl Augustus Julius Milde. | Charles Edward Faxon inventory in Archives Guide. | 1824-1871 | ||
| Mille | Louis (Father) | 1910-1938 | 26 | Includes 2 plant lists. | Rose, Joseph Nelson, SH 3, folder 3. | ? |
| Miller | Edgar Calvin LeRoy | 1916 | 3 | Includes a description of Richmond magnolias. | 1877[1867?]-? | |
| Miller | Elihu Sanford | 1899 | 2 | 2 postcards. | Historic Letters database. | 1848-1940 |
| Miller | Ellen | 1894-1895 | 2 | ? | ||
| Miller | Fred Anderson | 1914 | 1 | 1878-? | ||
| Miller | George H. | 1910 | 1 | ? | ||
| Miller | Gerrit Smith | 1893-1901 | 13 | 1869-1956 | ||
| Miller | John | 1899 | 1 | ? | ||
| Miller | Osborn Maitland | Alexander Forbes inventory in Archives Guide. | 1897-? | |||
| Miller | S. H. ? | 1910 | 1 | ? | ||
| Miller | Waldron DeWitt | 1913-1918 | 7 | Includes 1 note on birch by M.L. Fernald. | 1879-1929 | |
| Miller | Wilhelm | 1897-1906 | 24 | After 1919, known as William Tyler Miller. | 1869-1938 | |
| Miller | William | 1903-1911 | 34 | ? | ||
| Miller | William Tyler | Miller, Wilhelm. | ||||
| Mills | J. H. ? | 1892-1897 | 4 | Historic Letters database. | ? | |
| Millspaugh | Charles Frederick | 1893-1923 | 256 | Historic Letters database. | 1854-1923 | |
| Miner | Edna Eliza | Rogers, Edna Eliza (nee Miner) | ||||
| Minns | Susan | 1899-1938 | 57 | Includes 1 letter from Gertrude M. Wellwood re Minns's 95th birthday, 1934, and 1 letter from Ruth W. Bement re Minns's funeral, 1938. | 1839-1938 | |
| Minot | Charles Sedgwick | 1901-1914 | 10 | 1852-1914 | ||
| Mirbel | Charles Francois B. | Historic Letters; Jean Louis Berlandier inventory (#2) in Archives Guide. | 1776-1854 | |||
| Miscellaneous | ? | ? | Reychler letters to G.W. Collins, 1920; News clips of J.C. Fremont Expedition, 1845;Fragment w/signature of George Washington;Map tracings by Emery Moore; | Also includes letter of Robert Ca?o?ll found in W.H. Harvey folder. | ||
| Mitchell | Elisabeth R. ? | 1926-1928 | 11 | Includes 2 plant lists. | ? | |
| Mitten | William | 1896 | 1 | 1 copy of a letter. | Historic Letters database. | 1819-1906 |
| Mix | Arthur Jackson | 1920 | 1 | 1888-1956 | ||
| Miyabe | Kingo | 1887-1937 | 10 | Historic Letters database. | 1860-1950 | |
| Miyazawa | Bungo | 1927-1928 | 3 | 1884-? | ||
| Mohler | J. C. ? | 1929 | 1 | ? | ||
| Mohr | Charles Theodore | 1879-1899 | 5 | Includes list of desiderata. | Historic Letters database. | 1824-1901 |
| Moldenke | Harold Norman | 1931-1936 | 54 | Includes 1 plant list, 2 lists of plant photographs, 1 description of a set of specimens. | 1909- | |
| Moll | Jan Willem | 1894-1906 | 4 | 1851-1933 | ||
| Moller | Hjalmar August | 1926 | 5 | letters regard the death of P. Dusen and the disposal of his plant collections | 1866-1941 | |
| Monachino | Joseph Vincent | 1943-1959 | 10 | 1911-1962 | ||
| Monnet | Paul | 1914 | 2 | |||
| Monroe | Vernon | 1934 | 1 (to him) | of Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
| Monsley | H. | See: Bartlett, Harley Harris (1886-1960) | of Montreal | |||
| Montero | O. Gilberto | 1926-1941 | 27 | plus 6 plant lists | of Chile | |
| Monteverde | Nikolai Augustinovic | 1929 | 1 | 1856-1929 | ||
| Moxley | George Loucks | 1916-1927 | 22 | 1871-? | ||
| Moyer | Lycurgus Rose | 1896-1917 | 4 | 1848-1917 | ||
| Mueller | Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich, Baron von | 1894-1895 | 3 | Historic Letters database | 1825-1896 | |
| Muenscher | Walter Conrad Leopold | 1924-1948 | 48 | Includes flyer for seeds of New York aquatic plants (1935), and Century 2, seeds of aquatic and marsh plants of N.Y. (1940). | 1891-1963 | |
| Muhlenberg | Henry Ernest | 1808-1815 | ? | H. Muhlenberg/S. Elliott letter excerpts. Also known as Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg. |
Historic Letters; Manasseh Cutler inventory (p.5,6); Stephen Elliott inventory. | 1753-1815 |
| Mulford | A. Isabel ? | 1894-1898 | 13 | Includes 1 plant list. | ? | |
| Muller | Otto | ca. 1893 | 1 | Letter re photo album in honor of Professor Pringsheim's 70th birthday. | ? | |
| Mulliken | Robert Sanderson | 1915-1920 | 6 | 1896-? | ||
| Munoz Pizzaro | Carlos | Munoz Pizzaro inventory in Archives Guide. | 1913-? | |||
| Munro | William | George Thurber,William Munro, Charles Wright inventories in Archives Guide | 1818-1880 | |||
| Munroe | Kirk, Mrs. | 1920 | 1 | ? | ||
| Munson | Welton Marks | 1897-1907 | 5 | Historic Letters database. | 1866-1910 | |
| Munsterberg | Hugo | 1904-1909 | 2 | 1863-1916 | ||
| Munter | William H. ? | Walter Deane inventory (p.3, 20) in Archives Guide. | ? | |||
| Munz | Philip Alexander | 1919-1934 | 147 | Includes letter of recommendation for Munz by B.L. Robinson. | 1892-1974 | |
| Murdoch | John, Jr. | 1904-1907 | 2 | 1885-1915 | ||
| Murdoch | Alice L. ? | 1916 | 2 | ? | ||
| Murillo | Luis G. ? | 1896 | 1 | ? | ||
| Murr | Josef | 1903-1928 | 11 | 1864-1932 | ||
| Murray | Elizabeth | 1919 | 2 | ? | ||
| Murray | George Robert Milne | 1899 | 1 | 1858-1911 | ||
| Murrill | William Alphonso | 1906-1928 | 17 | 1869-1957 | ||
| Murtfeldt | Mary Esther | 1894 | 1 | 1847-1913 | ||
| Myers | Frances J. | George Edward Davenport inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters. |
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