William Henry Leggett Papers (PP) Leggett, William Henry, 1816-1882.

William Henry Leggett Papers (PP)

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	Collectors:	Leggett, William Henry, 1816-1882.
	Title:	William Henry Leggett Papers (PP)
	Dates:	1862-1883
	Quantity:	.5 linear feet; 1 box
	Call Phrase:	Leggett (PP)

Biography of William Henry Leggett

William Henry Leggett (1816-1882) was born on February 24, 1816. He graduated from Columbia College in 1837. Leggett was a New York City classics teacher and amateur botanist. He was one of the founders of the Torrey Botanical Club and was the first editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, which was started by him as a private enterprise in 1870. Leggett was described as a “profound classical scholar, a most conscientious teacher and an enthusiastic botanist”.1 William Leggett died on April 11, 1882.

Ref: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Vol. 9, 1882. p. 86

Scope and Content

Collection consist primarily of correspondence with colleagues during his tenure as Editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Prominent correspondents include Asa Gray, George Clinton, William Denslow, George Thurber, and John Williamson. Subjects include the exchange and determination of specimens, the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and the death of John Torrey. Research notes on Lechea, Compositae, and plants growing in New York.


Arrangement
	The collection is organized into two series:

		Series 1: Correspondence. 186-1883. Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 2: Research Notes. 1862-1869. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Restrictions

Access restrictions

This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.


Indexing Terms
	The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
	Subjects
		Leggett, William Henry, 1816-1882 -- Archives.
		New York Botanical Garden Archives.
		Torrey Botanical Club -- History -- Sources.

Related Material

New York Botanical Garden Archives

PP-- John Torrey Papers

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

William Henry Leggett Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.

Acquisition Information

This collection was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden Archives.

Processing Information

Originally processed by Susan Fraser, NYBG Archivist, March 2000, with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA-23141-98). Converted to EAD in August 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).

Container List

Series 1. Correspondence.

Scope and Content: Correspondence pertaining to plant descriptions, acknowledgements of receipt of specimens, and requests for copies of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.
Folder	Title	Date
1.1	Austin, Coe Finch	1870-1883
1.2	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	1873
1.3	Bennett, James Lawrence	1873
1.4	Biscoe, Thomas D.	1872-1874
1.5	Bower, William	1866
1.6	Brown, Ann Elizabeth	1870-1871
1.7	Brown, Addison	1880
1.8	Bumstead, Freeman Joseph	1872-1873
1.9	Burgess, Edward S.	1876
1.10	Candolle, Alphonse de	1875
1.11	Cauty, William M.	1874
1.12	Clinton, George William	n.d.
1.13	Curtiss, Allen Hiram	1870-1873
1.14	Davenport, George Edward	1873-1879
1.15	Davis, Charles M.	1878
1.16	Decaisne, Joseph	1873
1.17	Denslow, Herbert McKenzie	1871
1.18	Eaton, Daniel Cady	1870-1874
1.19	Edwards, William	1874
1.20	Engelmann, George	1870-1872
1.21	Faxon, Charles E.	n.d.
1.22	Fischer, George J.	1870/1874
1.23	Gray, Asa	1862-1884
1.24	Green, A.C.	1870
1.25	Hall, Isaac H.	1877
1.26	Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer	1874
1.27	Hegelmaier, Christoph Friedrick	1870-1871
1.28	Hitchings, E.H.	1873-1874
1.29	Hoysradt, Lyman Henry	1878-1879
1.30	James Thomas	1874
1.31	James Thomas	1872-1874
1.32	Keck, Karl	1873
1.33	Keeler, William T.	1877-1878
1.34	Koehler, Augustus	1877
1.35	Lesquereux, [Charles] Leo	1874-1875
1.36	Leue, Adolph	1875
1.37	Lockwood, Samuel	1871
1.38	Mann, Benjamin Pickman	1874/1877
1.39	Mann, Horace, Jr.	1868
1.40	Martin, Daniel Strobel	1871
1.41	Mayer, Isaac Shoemaker	1867-1872
1.42	Meehan, Thomas	1870
1.43	Merriam, James Sheldon	1870-1873
1.44	Miller, Elihu S.	1871-1872
1.45	Millington, Lucy A.	1871-1872
1.46	Olney, Stephan Thayer	1871-1875
1.47	Owen, Maria L.	1878
1.48	Peck, Charles H.	1868-1877
1.49	Ravenel, H. W.	1871
1.50	Redfield, John	1873-1880
1.51	Robinson, John	n.d.
1.52	Rusby, Henry Hurd	1878
1.53	Sargent, Charles Sprague	1879
1.54	Smith, John Donnell	1880
1.55	Thuemen, Felix, Karl Albert, von	1878
1.56	Thurber, George	1869-1883
1.57	Torrey, John	1868-1873
1.58	Torrey, Margaret	1873
1.59	Tuckerman, Edward	1871-1874
1.60	Tutweiler, Julia S.	1872-1873
1.61	Underwood, Lucien M.	1878
1.62	Watson, Serano	1873
1.63	Williamson, John	1873-1879
1.64	Wood, A.	ca. 1873-1875
1.65	Young, Henri W.	1874

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Series 2. Research Notes.

Scope and Content: Notes and lists on botanical topics, and a draft proposal to Columbia College on the Torrey Botanical Club’s views regarding the relations of Columbia College to the Science of Botany.
Folder	Title	Date
1.66	Notes on Compositae	1869
1.67	Notes on Lechea, I	n.d.
1.68	Notes on Lechea, II	n.d.
1.69	Plants growing near New York	1862

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