The correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777 / edited by Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartram, John, 1699-1777.

Contributor:

Berkeley, Edmund, editor.

Berkeley, Dorothy Smith, editor.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Correspondence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bartram, John, 1699-1777. Correspondence.

Bartram, John.

Botanists--United States--Correspondence.

Botanists.

United States.

Naturalists--United States--Correspondence.

Naturalists.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (Blank Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 808 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1992]

Summary:

By 1733 Peter Collinson had become convinced that he needed to find a man in the colonies with some knoweledge of plants, who could be persuaded to make collections for him on a mutually beneficial basis. He sought help from Dr. Samuel Chew, whom he had apparently known in London. Chew unhesitatingly recommended John Bartram, and Collinson wrote to him. Their 1733 correspondence has not survived, but a surprising amount of that which followed has done so, and forms the basis for this volume.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 792-797) and index.

Local Notes:

Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

081301123X

OCLC:

24590438