Manasseh Cutler papers, 1782-1856, bulk 1782-1808 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Manasseh Cutler papers consist of notebooks of observations of plants, notebooks of extracts from books and letters, dated from 1782 to 1808, and a small group of loose materials, which includes material created in 1856 after Cutler's death. The notebooks are part of a numbered series, and the collection includes books I, II, III, two loose leaves from IV, V, VI, VII, IX, XII and XIII, dating from 1783 to 1804, with gaps. They contain detailed notes on plants and were apparently intended as part of an effort to expand Cutler's Account of some of the vegetable productions (1785). There are also extracts notebooks containing passages from a variety of publications, including the Transactions of the Royal Society, travel accounts, histories, and C.H. Persoon's (1755-1837) Synopsis plantarum (1805-1807), as well as from letters of Scottish physician and botanist Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831). The collection additionally contains a small amount of correspondence and manuscript materials, including a letter from American botanist Henry Muhlenberg (1753-1815) and a draft of a letter from Cutler to Swedish botanist Olof Swartz (1760-1818).There is also material generated by Edward Tuckerman (1817-1886), who was in possession of Cutler's papers after his death. The collection is mainly in English, with one notebook in Latin