Harris, William, circa 1883-1932

There are four boxes of correspondence with colleagues, personal friends, and social leaders covering the period from her instruction at the Normal School through her NYBG career. Notable correspondents are Helen Brown, Edward Chamberlain, Alice Eastwood, William Farlow, Jane Gray, John Holzinger, James Macoun, William Maxon, William Mitten, George Nichols, Henry Hurd Rusby, Richard Spruce, Anne Morrill Smith, Josephine Elizabeth Tilden, Hugo de Vries, and Alfred Russell Wallace. There are ten letters from Nathaniel Lord Britton (1891-98). One (29 May 1912) is a notice of her appointment as Honorary Curator of Mosses, passed by the NYBG Board of Managers 23 May 1912. In some instances, correspondence to Elizabeth Britton appears in the Nathaniel Britton collection, and vice versa. Such cases are not cross-referenced. It may be advisable to refer to each collection for related correspondence, especially in cases where the same correspondent appears in both collections.