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Anne Mary Perceval and John Torrey correspondence, circa 1838-1840

by: Perceval, Anne Mary

Publication date: 1838

Topics: Botanical specimens, Plants, Perceval, Anne Mary -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Flora of North America, Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866, Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865, Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820, Plants -- Canada

Collection: biodiversity; nybgtorrey; NY_Botanical_Garden

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

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Correspondence from Anne Mary Perceval to John Torrey, undated (circa 1838-1840), unsigned, and written in the third person. Beginning "Mrs. Perceval presents her comp'ts and returns her best thanks to Dr. Torrey for his most obliging kindness...", the note thanks Torrey for sending some "sheets" of the Flora of North America and asks that she and several of her friends be listed as subscribers to it. She then offers any assistance she might be able to give him in his work on it -- though "she pleads almost entire ignorance of the Grasses..."-- and promises to send not only an 1819 catalog of plants by Pursh, made in the Chaudière Falls region on the Ontario-Quebec border, but her own catalog of Quebec plants, made while she was resident there

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online

Abstract: Correspondence from Anne Mary Perceval to John Torrey, undated (circa 1838-1840), unsigned, and written in the third person. Beginning 'Mrs. Perceval presents her comp'ts and returns her best thanks to Dr. Torrey for his most obliging kindness...', the note thanks Torrey for sending some 'sheets' of the Flora of North America and asks that she and several of her friends be listed as subscribers to it. She then offers any assistance she might be able to give him in his work on it -- though 'she pleads almost entire ignorance of the Grasses...'-- and promises to send not only an 1819 catalog of plants by Pursh, made in the Chaudière Falls region on the Ontario-Quebec border, but her own catalog of Quebec plants, made while she was resident there.