MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1808-1840
Abstract:
The correspondence is principally to Zaccheus Collins (1810-1840), with bills, receipts, and notes on Rafinesque vs. Parker; letters from Collins, L.A. Tarascon, Lewis C. Beck, John Torrey, and Charles W. Short (1817-1835); and miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating to Rafinesque vs. Parker, with an account of the Felician Society of Feliciana County, Illinois (1820). The writings are chiefly on botanical topics, and include notes and essays on Indians, Blacks, grapes and wine-making, banking, and speculation. Rafinesque's growing interest in Indian antiquities, linguistics, and history is apparent in letters after 1820. There is an account of Rafinesque's scientific travels in North America and southern Europe (1800-1832), and a bibliography. The botanical notes include descriptions of specimens collected by Lewis and Clark, Patrick Gass, and Henry Muhlenberg.
Call #:
Mss.B.R124
Extent:
1.75 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Anishinaabe | Bibliographies. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Botany. | Culture, community, organizations | Delaware Indians | Essays. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Gass, Patrick, 1771-1870 | Indians of North America -- Louisiana | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural history | North America -- Description and travel. | Notebooks | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Ottawa Indians | Picture-writing | Plains Indians | Political Correspondence | Race, race relations, racism | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Tarascon, L. A. | Travel | Wallam olum | Zoology.