Henry William Ravenel Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0105
The collection consists of 234 original letters from leading American and European botanists and agriculturists, mostly concerning the whole flora of his locality near the Santee Canal, fungi, grapes, and other plants. The correspondents usually request or acknowledge specimens. There is a list of correspondents, and it includes Alvan Wentworth Chapman, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and Moses A. Curtis.
Henry William Ravenel was born in 1814 in St. John's Parish, South Carolina. He was educated in South Carolina private schools and South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina and was one of the few distinguished botanists of his time. He received international acclaim for his research on non-flowering plants, Cryptogams. His earlier interest was Phanerogams, flowering plants.
0.25 Cubic Feet
English
Letters are numbered in two groups, I-XVII and 1-217.
Gift of Miss Mary H. Ravenel, May 21, 1931.
Formerly accessioned as 31-2.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository