Correspondence
Subtitle: Palmer and Engelmann
Contributors: Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
Published: 1866
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Correspondence; Botany; Botanical specimens
Other titles: George Engelmann Papers, 1831-1914.
Description: Incoming and outgoing correspondence between George Engelmann and Edward Palmer, for 1874-1883. The correspondence relates to Palmer's collecting trips to Mexico and the American west, including Arizona, California and Utah, as well as Palmer's and Engelmann's work on identifying plant specimens collected during these trips.

Folder contain original letters and postcards.

Letter dated December 25, 1867 includes a note from Asa Gray to George Engelmann.

Letter dated March 12, 1870, written by Horace Capron, Commissioner of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to George Engelmann regarding Palmer specimens.

Letter dated May 10, 1870 includes a note from C. C. Parry to George Engelmann.

Folder also contains handwritten notes from George Engelmann regarding Palmer's specimens from Arizona.
Notes: This collection is open for research.

George Engelmann Papers, 1831-1914 / Correspondence (Collection 1 RG 4/1/5/1), Missouri Botanical Garden Archives.

Finding aid available from Missouri Botanical Garden Library and online http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/molib/part2.pdf.