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Sarah Swain Hathaway Forbes and John Torrey correspondence, undated

by: Forbes, Sarah Swain Hathaway,1813-1900

Publication date: 1850

Topics: Correspondence, Forbes, Sarah Swain Hathaway, 1813-1900, Torrey, John, 1796-1873, Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859, Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831

Collection: nybgtorrey; biodiversity; NY_Botanical_Garden

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

Language: English

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

Correspondence from Sarah Swain Forbes to John Torrey, undated (probably between 1850 and 1873), thanking Torrey for his "account of the Mexican Hand Tree." Forbes reminisces about a specimen of the tree that her father Stephen Hathaway remembered growing in the garden of his neighbor Dr. Samuel Mitchill in White Street in New York City, and a picture she has of its bloom, painted by her mother Lydia Swain Hathaway

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

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

Abstract: Correspondence from Sarah Swain Forbes to John Torrey, undated (probably between 1850 and 1873), thanking Torrey for his "account of the Mexican Hand Tree." Forbes reminisces about a specimen of the tree that her father Stephen Hathaway remembered growing in the garden of his neighbor Dr. Samuel Mitchill in White Street in New York City, and a picture she has of its bloom, painted by her mother Lydia Swain Hathaway.