George Golding Kennedy Correspondence. George Golding Kennedy Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria

George Golding Kennedy (1841-1918) was a medicine manufacturer and botanist from Roxbury, Massachusetts. After earning his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, he practiced medicine for a short time, then took over his father's business manufacturing medicines. He was active in the New England Botanical Club, published brief articles on botany, and in 1904, published a flora of Willoughby, Vermont. He developed a sizeable herbarium which he eventually gave to the Farlow, Gray and New England Botanical Club herbaria. He was active on the Visiting Committee of the Gray Herbarium and gave the money to build a new library wing in 1914. Kennedy married Harriet White Harris in 1865, and they had five children

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Consists of letters written to George Kennedy from 108 correspondents with surnames starting with E-H, mostly regarding botany but also some regarding personal matters. The letters are arranged alphabetically by sender with the exception of correspondents with four or more letters, whose letters can be found at the end of each file. These correspondents are William Gilson Farlow (67 letters), Charles Edward Faxon (39 letters, five postcards), Edwin Faxon (11 letters, three postcards), Walter Faxon (48 letters, two postcards), Merritt Lyndon Fernald (34 letters), Frederick Gillan Floyd (21 letters), W.B. Gibbs (25 letters and additional miscellanea), George Lincoln Goodale (50 letters and additional miscellanea), Charles Pelham Greenough (ten letters, one postcard), Abel Joel Grout (12 letters, three postcards), John Hancock (autographed invoice from 1766), Harvard University (40 letters and additional miscellanea), Amos Arthur Heller (four letters), John Michael Holzinger (12 letters, 14 psotcards and additional miscellanea), Joseph Dalton Hooker (five letters, one specimen), and John Warren Huntington (five letters)

Correspondents with three or fewer letters: Alvah Augustus Eaton, George J. Eaton, Samuel Edgerton, J. Rayner Edwards, Willard Webster Eggleston, Charles W. Eliot, Laurence A. Eliot, William Ellery Channing Eustis, Alexander W. Evans, William Maxwell Everts, U.S. Department of State, Clifton H. Dwinnell, Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science, First National Bank, Hamilton Fish, Mrs. T.J. Fitzpatrick, F.F. Forbes, Gertrude E. Forrest, John W. Fullerton, Kate Furbish, Isabel M. Paddock, Charles T. Gallagher, William Francis Ganong, Samuel Trevor Garman, F.L. George, Francis G. Goodale, H.H. Goodell, Asa Gray, Robert M. Green, Edward L. Greene, Winfield W. Green, J.M. Greenman, Edward W. Grew, Delia I. Griffin, Howard R. Guild, H.H. Langton, Malcolm W. Wallace, Gertrude L. Amory, J. Hagen, Edward E. Hale, Byron D. Halsted, Rose N. Hardwick, J.W. Hardwick, William R. Harper, L.B. Harris, David G. Haskins, Jr., Robert N. Hastings, Arthur E. Hendry, Augustus Hemenway, Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, Hope Hemenway Richardson, Samuel Henshaw, W. Williams Hervey, Fanny C. Hicks, Gilbert H. Hicks, D.I. Hodges, Theodore J. Hill, Michitaro Hisa, A.S. Hitchcock, John A. Homans, John Horne, James R. Hooper, Charlotte N.S. Horner, Ralph Sheldon Hosmer, Romeyn B. Hough Co., Marshall A. Howe, Edward Howell, S. Charles Howell, Annie O. Huntington, Henry Barrett Huntington, and Lilly St. Agnan Huntington

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