George Edward Davenport correspondence
Subtitle: Miscellaneous letters and mounted postcards
Published: 1873
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Correspondence; Botanists
Description: Consists of four miscellaneous letters to or from Davenport, a Davenport family tree prepared by Mary Elizabeth Davenport, and 127 mounted postcards from the following senders: C.L. Andrews, Rebecca Merritt Austin, Miss. H.J. Biddlecorne, Frank H. Bradley, Daniel Cleveland, Allen Hiram Curtiss, William Edwards, Charles Edward Faxon, Charles H. Fernald, Charles C. Frost, Abram Paschal Garber, Henry Gillman, Edward Lee Greene, A.B. Guilford, Eliza Hosmer, Joseph Howell, Joseph Ellis Johnson, Joseph Finley Joor, William Henry Leggett, John Gill Lemmon, Peter Vincent LeRoy, John Macoun, Elihu Sanford Miller, Lucy A. Millington, Charles Theodore Mohr, Henry L. Moody, John Alsop Paine, Charles Christopher Parry, Emily O. Pelton, Thomas Minott Peters, Henry M. Pratt, Minot Pratt, Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, Henry William Ravenel, E. Richardson, Jessie D. Roy, Olivia Rust, J. Slauffer, John Donnell Smith, F.H. Snow, Sereno Watson, Erastus S. Wheeler, John Williamson, W.H. Wilmot, James Wilson, Lucien Marcus Underwood.
Notes: George Edward Davenport Correspondence. George Edward Davenport Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria.

George Edward Davenport (1833-1907) was a businessman and botanist from Boston who chiefly studied ferns. He was a member of the Mass Hort Society, New England Botanical Club, Torrey Botanical Club, and The Middlesex Scientific Field Club as a founding member. He published articles relating to ferns, forestry, and horticulture in many botanical journals. Davenport was also active in promoting the conservation of the Middlesex Fells, was a long-time member of the Medford School Committee (starting in 1892), had been involved in the anti-slavery movement, and was interested in labor reform. Davenport was married to Mary Francis and had ten children, eight of whom survived him. They moved from South Boston to Medford in 1875, and he died in 1907 while taking a walk in the Middlesex Fells.

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