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<dl><dd>John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden</dd>
<dd>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</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>
<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: 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</div>
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Forbes, Sarah Swain Hathaway,1813-1900</div>
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