Box 1

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This material was also included with Mr. Mitten's herbarium. It consists of two notebooks, one entitled Spruce and four folders of notes, one of which is devoted to notes on “hepatics”. One notebook has been copied and it contains notes on Spruce’s mosses and refers to several collecting trips in Brazil, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Java. It also contains Burchell’s itinerary in Brazil.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This material was also included with Mr. Mitten's herbarium. It consists of two notebooks, one entitled Spruce and four folders of notes, one of which is devoted to notes on “hepatics”. One notebook has been copied and it contains notes on Spruce’s mosses and refers to several collecting trips in Brazil, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Java. It also contains Burchell’s itinerary in Brazil.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This material was also included with Mr. Mitten's herbarium. It consists of two notebooks, one entitled Spruce and four folders of notes, one of which is devoted to notes on “hepatics”. One notebook has been copied and it contains notes on Spruce’s mosses and refers to several collecting trips in Brazil, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Java. It also contains Burchell’s itinerary in Brazil.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This material was also included with Mr. Mitten's herbarium. It consists of two notebooks, one entitled Spruce and four folders of notes, one of which is devoted to notes on “hepatics”. One notebook has been copied and it contains notes on Spruce’s mosses and refers to several collecting trips in Brazil, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Java. It also contains Burchell’s itinerary in Brazil.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This material was also included with Mr. Mitten's herbarium. It consists of two notebooks, one entitled Spruce and four folders of notes, one of which is devoted to notes on “hepatics”. One notebook has been copied and it contains notes on Spruce’s mosses and refers to several collecting trips in Brazil, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Java. It also contains Burchell’s itinerary in Brazil.

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This catalogue of 365 items was put together by Mitten's daughter Flora and an attached note dated 1910 to Mrs. Britton states that the prices are approximated. Mrs. Britton (?) notes that the remainder of the library was purchased as a lot by Quaritch. Also included is a selected list of titles from the catalogue, presumably drawn up for purchase by NYBG.

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Included is an envelope dated 1910 and addressed to Mrs. Britten with the handwritten note: “From Flora Mitten pictures of W. Mitten's garden at Hurstpierpoint”.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Dated July 1990, this bound sketchbook entitled Macromitrium Unpublished Drawings is copied from the William Campbell Steere Collection at the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. In the front of the volume is a copy of a letter dated 1937 from Flora Mitten to William Steere, Dept. of Botany, Michigan University. It states in this letter that this sketchbook was originally offered to the NYBG but no reply was received. She states that the war was probably the...