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Download or read book Samuel Thomas Carey and John Torrey Correspondence written by Samuel Thomas Carey and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Samuel Thomas Carey to John Torrey, dated 1836-1853. In the first letter Carey asks Torrey to furnish letters of introduction for the visiting naturalist William S. McLeay to any prominent men of science he can think of in Boston, where McLeay will be travelling after New York. The second letter, dated 1853, finds Carey slowly recovering from an accident that has left him with a broken knee and serious head injuries. While he still cannot read for more than 2 or 3 hours a day or take any exercise, Carey write, "I consider myself as one snatched from Death by the special Mercy of God." He hopes Torrey will be able to visit in the spring and wishes him luck in moving house.

Download or read book John Carey and John Torrey Correspondence written by John Carey (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from John Carey to John Torrey, dated 1835-1854. An intimate correspondence spanning almost 20 years of friendship, Carey's letters to Torrey are candid and emotional-- sometimes buoyant and playful, other times somber. From New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts he documents his hard work on botanical subjects ("...there is no such thing in nature as a strict lineal series of affinities"), particularly his contributions to Asa Gray's "Manual" in the area of Carex and Salix, and the traffic in specimens that flows between the botanists. He provides frequent news of their mutual acquaintences in the sciences, and nearly always sends warm greetings to Torrey's wife and daughters, and later his young son Herbert, who Carey calls "Herby." As a widow living alone, Carey eagerly anticipates his meetings and visits with Torrey and his family; there is much discussion about a planned oyster dinner in 1849. Carey pragmatically councils Torrey to pursue a well-paid professorship in Philadelphia, even though it would require "the necessary divorce from your early love (Flora)." Likewise he takes the reins of his brother Samuel's business when Sam is too ill to work. By fall of 1849 Carey is in dark spirits; he writes that he cannot bear to visit Torrey's happy home again because it makes his own loneliness too painful. 1849 also brings bouts of illness and the sale of the estate of their friend William Oakes, who drowned the previous year, and marks the beginning of a period of great personal sorrow for Carey-- the loss of his mother, two of his sons, two newborn grandchildren, and his herbarium-- mostly unmentioned in this collection, culmanating in Carey's return to his native England in 1852. He writes that he finds himself more at ease in London than he was in New York-- "I, personally am better fitted for a liegeman of the British Crown, than for one of Uncle Sam's Free and enlightened Citizens"-- and because he has started work in a brokerage house, "I must not be coquetting with dame Nature, if I would make a good man of business." Carey's last letter, dated Christmas Eve, 1854, brings a great deal of happy news: recently married, Carey and his new wife have just welcomed a baby daughter, and his surviving son and his family are staying with them in London; he is feeling healthier than ever and surprised and delighted at his good fortune. Also included in the collection is an undated note from Carey's son, John Carey, Jr., asking a question about his father's herbarium. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Carex nuttallii, Chenopodiaceae, and Cyclachaena.

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Download or read book John Torrey and John Carey Correspondence written by John Torrey and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from John Torrey to John Carey, undated. A short, ebullient note congratulating Carey on a particularly tricky plant identification: "The little thing is so unike most of the order to which it belongs that I don't wonder you were puzzled with it." In celebration, Torrey writes, "I send you a queer little affair of Rafinesque's to read this evening."

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Download or read book Samuel Hart Wright and John Torrey Correspondence written by Samuel Hart Wright and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Samuel Hart Wright to John Torrey, dated 1870, discussing a package of plant specimens he received from a friend, together with a note suggesting he consult Torrey for their identification.

Download or read book Samuel Freedley and John Torrey Correspondence written by Samuel Freedley and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Samuel Freedley to John Torrey, dated 1827, discussing plant specimens and expressing his desire to accompany Torrey on a trip to the New Jersey pine barrens.

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Download or read book Thomas Antisell and John Torrey Correspondence written by Thomas Antisell and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from Thomas Antisell to John Torrey, dated from 1853-1861. Earlier letters make frequent mention of the progress being made on volume 7 of the Pacific Railroad survey to which he and Torrey both contributed, as well as chemical experiments and the activities of other chemists and geologists of mutual acquaintance such as A.A. Hayes, G.C. Schaeffer, and C.F. Jackson. Antisell frequently voices his dissatisfaction with his government posts at the War Department and the Patent Office, and his attempts to find other employment and supplemental work lecturing at various medical colleges. Several letters are undated.