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 R-W, 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 Edward Lothrop Rand (18 letters, one postcard), William Lambert Richardson (29 letters, 3 postcards between various correspondents), J. Ross Robertson (six letters and additional miscellanea), Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (33 letters and additional miscellanea), John Ruskin (one letters signed by him and one letters signed by one of his servants), Josephine E. Tilden (19 letters and additional miscellanea from various correspondents), Roland Thaxter (eight letters), George Henry Tilton (seven letters, two postcards), William Trelease (ten letters), Rodney Howard True (five letters and additional miscellanea), Edward H. Whorf (five letters), and Emile Francis and Blanche Williams (34 letters)

Correspondents with three or fewer letters: Walter R. Meins, Felix Rackemann, John C. Rand, Katharine Bates Rand, Eugene A. Rau, Manley A. Raymond, James Reed, Alfred Rehder, William P. Rick, Harriet E. Richards, Naomi Richardson, Lincoln W. Riddle, C.H. Rieber, Harold Goddard Rugg, Grace W. Rivers, Alexander Robertson, Charles Robertson, John Robinson, John Rothschild, May E. Rogers, Joseph Nelson Rose, A. Lawrence Rotch, Roxbury Historical Society, Giovanni Ruffini, H. H. Rusby, George Wigglesworth, Henry R. Howland, Joseph Nelson Rose, James Seymour Severance, Robert Saltonstall, J.H. Sandberg, F.W. Sawtelle & Co., C.W. Sawyer, Schoenhof Book Company, Charles Schweinfurth, F. Lawson Scribner, Horace E. Scudder, Marianna P. Seaman, J.H. Sears, Ella Sevrens, George Nathan Sevrens, William H. Seward, A.B. Seymour, [R. Shaw], Thomas P. Shaw, Judson Shute, Clarence R. Skinner, Manning Skinner, Annie Trumbull Slosson, John. K. Small, Annie Morrill Smith, Stanley W. Smith, Perley Spaulding, Mrs. James Spencer née Hunt, M.J. Splaine, Charlotte Sprague, Henry H. Sprague, Hazard Stevens, Florence A. Stone, George Stearns, G.E. Stone, George F. Swain, Alice M.J. Beach, Charles H. Taylor, Emily Hitchcock Terry, William Thiselton-Dyer, The Thompson & Norris Company, Walter Eliot Thwing, Josephine E. Tilden, John W. Titcomb, Bradford Torrey, James Tregaskis, K.M. True, Frederick Tuckerman, A.F. Warner, Hartland Nature Club, Jay G. Underwood, Lucien M. Underwood, Annie B. Crocker, Willis R. Russ, Coslett Herbert Waddell, Winthrop H. Wade, Robert A. Ware, J. Collins Warren, The Washington School Boys' Association, Dependence Sturtevant Waterman, A.G. Weatherby, Charles Alfred Weatherby, Joseph N. Webster, William Wesley, Charles Fay Wheeler, Edward S. ("Ned") Wheeler, John A. Wheeler, Mary C. Wheeler, George R. White, James C. White, Mabel Tourny White, Anne Whitney, Ellerton P. Whitney, Frank W. Wildes, Edward T. Williams, Henry M. Williams, Robert Statham Williams

Hannah Stevenson Wolcott, Roger Wolcott, Frances B. Wood, William L. Worcester, and Julia J. Wright

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