Approximately 495 items

Consists of letters written to Walter Deane from 70 correspondents with surnames starting with T-W, mostly regarding botany, as well as personal matters. The letters are arranged alphabetically by sender. The collection also includes cards, postcards, picture postcards, etc. Correspondents are: Mary G. Tallant (including one letter to Edward Lothrop Rand from Susan C. Hosmer), Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Edward Sherman Hoar, K. Tamari; Edward Tatnall, Katherine A. Taylor, Roland Thaxter, Charles Henry Thompson, Henry David Thoreau, Felix Karl Albert Ernst Joachim von Thumen (Baron Thumen), George Thurber, Gustaf Augus Tiselius, Lottie Titcomb, Anna M. Coolidge, Edward Tatnall, Norman Taylor, Emily Hitchcock Terry, Kenneth S. Teslar, Jeanie I.W. Thacher, Roland Thaxter, Evelyn Forbes Thayer, Harriet L. Thayer, John Eliot Thayer, Nora Thayer, Ruth Thayer, Jocelyn Parker Thomas, John James Thornber, Albert Thorndike, Thomas Baldwin Ticknor, Tiffany and Company, Charles Wendell Townsend, William Trelease, Rodney Howard True, Ume Tsuda, Margaret M. Tuttle, Lora A. Underhill, Lucien Marcus Underwood, William Lyman Underwood, George Vasey, John R. Wakefield, George Lincoln Walton, Lester Frank Ward, Alice Ware (includes a poem by Edward Lear), Robert Allison Ware, Cornelia Blakemore Warner, Worcester Reed Warner, Benjamin Marston Watson, Arthur T. Wayne, Waynflete School, Charles Alfred Weatherby, Joseph K. Webster, T. Walter Weiseman, James Lloyd Wellington, Helen L. Wellington, Barrett Wendell, William Wendte, William Henry Weston, Jr., John Adams Wheeler, Leston Ansel Wheeler, Margaret L. Wheeler, Margaret F.G. Whitney, Charles L. Whittle, Karl McKay Wiegand, Charlotte Endicott Wilde, Edward Wilkinson, Arthur Williams, Emile Francis Williams, Grace D. Williams, Nellie T. Williams, Henry M. Williams, Robert Statham Williams, Robert W. Williams, Thomas Albert Williams, Robert Wheeler Willson; Annie Downing Willson, Wilson Ornithological Club (Lynd Jones)

Wings of the Wild, Clark Winter, Casey Wood, Cora Raymond (on behalf of C. Wood), Arthur B. Woodford, Samuel Washington Woodhouse, Norman Porter Woodward, Richard William Woodward, Alice White Wright, and Gerald W. Wright

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Walter Deane was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 23, 1848. He attended Harvard College (Class of 1870) and became a teacher at St. Mark’s School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and later at the Hopkinson School in Boston. He married Margaret Chapman Coolidge in 1878, and they moved to Cambridge shortly thereafter. His interest in botany began to develop around 1880, and after he gave up teaching in 1895, he led small classes in botany and worked for the Metropolitan Park Commission compiling a flora of the park system. He also had a keen interest in ornithology, working as a curator for William Brewster’s ornithological museum and assisting in the preparation of Brewster’s Birds of the Cambridge Region. Deane held no more paid positions after 1907, devoting himself to his own interests. He was a founding member of the New England Botanical Club and was very active in the local botanical community, helping with several floras and corresponding with a great number of botanists. For many years, he spent summers in Shelburne, New Hampshire. Deane died on July 30, 1930

Walter Deane Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria

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