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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2017- 9
Creator: Bailey, William Whitman 1843-1914
Title, Dates: Bailey family letters, 1836-1905.
Amount: .25 cubic ft.
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Biographical/Historical:     William Whitman Bailey (1843-1914) was the son of Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811-1857), an American naturalist and professor of chemistry at West Point. William Whitman Bailey was a professor of botany at Brown University and a renowned American naturalist.
Summary:     This collection includes letters between members of the Bailey family, including letters sent by Jacob Whitman Bailey before his death in 1857. Some of Jacob Whitman Bailey's letters include his sketches and observations of flora and fauna he observed during a trip to Florida and other southern states in 1836. Several of the letters in this collection discuss the family members' or their colleagues' experience visiting Florida, and there are a couple letters addressed from Florida Governor Albert W. Gilchrist. The collection also includes several untranslated letters in Spanish, seemingly addressed to William Whitman Bailey.
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General Note: Previously State Library of Florida Manuscripts Collection MS5.
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Subject Access Fields: Bailey, William Whitman 1843-1914
Gilchrist, Albert Waller, 1858-1926
Botany Florida
Naturalists Florida
Letters. aat
Florida Description and travel
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