Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Letters from Henry Muhlenberg to Stephen Elliott, 1812 December 1-1815. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

Correspondence from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, botanist Henry Muhlenberg (1753-1815), dated from December 1, 1812 to 1815, concerning the classification and exchange of plant specimens with Elliott, Muhlenberg’s observations on different plant specimens he received from Elliott, news regarding the travels, activities, and publications of their botanical colleagues, the progress of Muhlenberg’s catalog of North American phanerogamic (seed) plants, printed in 1813, and a visit he made to Philadelphia, where he met with fellow botanists Zaccheus Collins (1764-1831) and John Lyon (1765-1814). Other topics include the impact of the War of 1812 on their ability to exchange specimens and Muhlenberg’s correspondence with Boston physician and botanist Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879; Harvard AB 1806).