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<dl><dd>John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden</dd>
<dd>Correspondence from M.A. Curtis to John Torrey, dated 1833-1851. Curtis' first letter to Torrey dates from his days as a divinity student, freshly returned from time spent in North Carolina. He and Torrey correspond primarily about plants in their early years, shipping specimens back and forth, and discussing the activities and publications of fellow botanists. Through the years, as Curtis completes his studies and is married and ordained and returns to North Carolina as a clergyman, his enthusiasm for the environment and flora of his adopted state never wanes. "I do not believe that any State in the Union is richer in Nat. Hist. than this," he writes in 1835. He asks Torrey to purchase books for him, and never loses his patience when Torrey fails to write for months on end. In 1846 he tells Torrey he is shifting his attention to lichens and fungi; several later letters are taken up with the matter of the tuckahoe, now known as Wolfiporia extensa. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Amorpha cyanostachya, Carex tabularia, Cimicifuga americana, Eleocharis simplex, Hypobrichia, Pachyma cocos, and Pyrus coronaria</dd>
<dd>Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)</dd>
<dd>Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Herbarium; Botanical specimens; Andropogon; Aristida; Brickellia; Carex; Coreopsis; Cyperaceae; Cyperus; Fungi; Galega; Ludwigia; Panicum; Paspalum; Plants; Ranunculus; Rhynchospora; Saxifraga; Scirpus; Spartina; Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872; Torrey, John, 1796-1873; Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857; Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889; Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884; Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841; Carey, John, 1797-1880; Croom, Hardy Bryan, 1797-1837; Darlington, William, 1782-1863; Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867; Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830; Engelmann, George, 1809-1884; Fries, Elias, 1794-1878; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865; Hunter, Cyrus L., 1807-1881; Loomis, Harris, 1795-1837; McRee, James Fergus, 1794-1869; Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857; Ravenel, Henry William, 1814-1887; Rugel, Ferdinand, 1806-1879; Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834; Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863; Tuckerman, Edward, 1817-1886; Wright, Charles, 1811-1885</div>
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Curtis, M. A.(Moses Ashley),1808-1872</div>
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