Bradford Ripley Alden and John Torrey correspondence, 1832-1834

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Related/Analytical: New York Botanical Garden Archives

Series: John Torrey papers, series 1, correspondence

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Alden, Bradford Ripley, 1811-1870

Alden, Roger, 1754-1836

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Correspondence from Bradford Ripley Alden to John Torrey, dated 1832-1834. A young officer just graduated from West Point, Alden writes from his postings in Florida asking Torrey to purchase and send him some medical books and a skeleton, as he has decided to "devote my leisure moments to the study of Medicine," and notifying him of boxes of botanical and mineralogical specimens he is sending to New York for Torrey. In a 1834 letter written from West Point, Alden laments the loss of another box of plants he shipped from Florida, and confesses he had been unhappy at that posting. A fourth letter, dated 1832, is from Bradford Alden's father Roger Alden.

In English.

Subjects

Alden, Bradford Ripley, 1811-1870 , Alden, Roger, 1754-1836 , Botanical specimens , Correspondence , Fort King (Fla.) , Medicine , Palatka (Fla.) , Tampa (Fla.) , Textbooks , Torrey, John, 1796-1873

BHL Collections

John Torrey Papers

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PP

Language

English

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OCLC: 968154954