William Trelease papers, [ca. 1862-1945].
Collection Number: 2560
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Trelease papers, [ca. 1862-1945].
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2560
Abstract:
General incoming personal and professional correspondence, c. 1879-c. 1845; correspondence,
clippings, and other items concerning his work in the Missouri Botanical Gardens,
his monographs, the naming of Mount Trelease, Colorado, activities of the Society
of American Bacteriologists, and other subjects; and photographs and miscellaneous
printed matter. Also Trelease's correspondence, deeds, and drawings concerning family
cemetery plots in Urbana, Illinois, and St. Louis Missouri.
Creator:
Trelease, William, 1857-1945.
Quanitities:
2.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of Botany at Wisconsin, Washington, and Illinois Universities, 1883-1912;
and director, Missouri Botanical Gardens, 1889-1912.
General incoming personal and professional correspondence, c. 1879-c. 1845; correspondence,
clippings, and other items concerning his work in the Missouri Botanical Gardens,
his monographs, the naming of Mount Trelease, Colorado, activities of the Society
of American Bacteriologists, and other subjects; and photographs and miscellaneous
printed matter. Also Trelease's correspondence, deeds, and drawings concerning family
cemetery plots in Urbana, Illinois, and St. Louis Missouri.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Trelease papers, #2560. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
University of Washington
University of Illinois
Missouri Botanical Gardens
Society of American Bacteriologists
Subjects:
Botanists -- United States.
Cemeteries -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
Cemeteries -- Illinois -- Urbana.
Botany -- Study and teaching.
Botanical gardens -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Professional correspondence from Anna Botsford (1854-1930) and John Henry Comstock
(1849-1931).
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[1879-1884]-1912 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Professional correspondence from William R. Dudley (1849- )
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Mar.-Nov. 1880 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Professional correspondence, mostly from J.B. Ellis
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1882-1901 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Professional correspondence and personal correspondence from George J. Engelmann,
M.D.
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1886-1889 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5a |
Correspondence from W.G. Farlow
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1880-1886 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5b |
Correspondence from W.G. Farlow
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1887-1894 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5c |
Correspondence from W.G. Farlow
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1895-1903 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Professional correspondence from Simon Henry Gage (1851-1944)
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[1880-1888]-1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Professional correspondence from W.R. Gerard
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1880-1885 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Personal and professional correspondence from George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923)
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1881-1888 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Professional correspondence from Edward Lee Greene (1832- )
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1887-1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Professional correspondence from J.H. Mellichamp
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1888-1898 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Professional correspondence from A.S. Packard, Jr., of the Department of the Interior,
Entomological Committee
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1879-1880 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Professional correspondence from C.C. Parry
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1888-1889, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Professional correspondence from Charles H. Peck
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1880-1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Professional correspondence from Charles Mohr
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1883-1901 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Professional correspondence from J. Reverchen
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1892-1902 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1a |
Professional correspondence, mostly from Joseph Nelson Rose (1862- ), of the Department
of Botany at the Smithsonian
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1885, 1892-1898 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1b |
Professional correspondence, mostly from Joseph Nelson Rose (1862- ), of the Department
of Botany at the Smithsonian
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1899-1901 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Professional correspondence from C.V. Riley
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1883-1894 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3a |
Professional correspondence from Charles Sprague Sargent (1841- )
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1883-1896 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3b |
Professional correspondence from Charles Sprague Sargent (1841- )
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1897-1902 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3b |
30 typewritten pp., "Gardens and Botanical Gardens"
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence (p.c.) between Trelease, Henry Shaw and W.G. Elliot re: Trelease's
employment at Missouri Botanical Garden
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1885 |
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A book of letters, mostly regarding Trelease's retirement from his post at the Missouri
Botanical Garden. Many of the letters are from well-known men, such as Roscoe Pound,
John Muir, Simon and Susanna Phelps Gage, Liberty Hyde Bailey, David Starr Jordan,
and the Comstocks.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2a | 1904-1912 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 2b | 1912 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 2c | 1914-1917 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Missouri Botanical Garden, clippings re: annual reports
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1892-1912 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence and other items pertaining to Trelease's "Agave in the West Indies"
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1912-1917, n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Items pertaining to Mount Trelease
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1932-1933, n.d. |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Photographs of the Boyce Thomson Southwestern Arboretum
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1929 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Letters and other items pertaining to Trelease's monograph of "American Oaks"
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1925-1935 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Miscellaneous correspondence, articles, and receipts
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1860-1918 |
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Miscellaneous correspondence
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 | 1925-1927 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 | 1928 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 4a-b | 1929 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 1a-b | 1930 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1931 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1932 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1933 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1934 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 | 1935 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 | 1936-1937 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | 1938-1939 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 | 1940 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 2 | 1941, [1942, 1944] | |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Letters of condolence, newspaper clippings
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1945 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Undated correspondence
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| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous photographs
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Pamphlets
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| Box 7 |
Paperbound book, Memoirs of the National Academy of Science, vol. XX (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924 ). The whole of this volume
compromises "The American Oaks," by William Trelease.
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1924 | |
| Box 8 |
Additional papers
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1914-[1940-1945] | |
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Scope and Contents
These additional papers consist mainly of letters from relatives, friends, colleagues,
and ex-students on his 80th (1937) and 83rd (1940) birthdays, and letters of condolence
(1945) to his widow and children; also included are Trelease's correspondence, deeds,
and drawings concerning family cemetery plots in Urban, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri;
William Trelease, Personal Reminiscences by J. Christian Bay (12 pp. pamphlet, 1945); photographs of Trelease; and related
printed matter and newspaper clippings. Ca. 150 pcs. Correspondents of William Trelease:
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