Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Letters from James MacBride to Stephen Elliott, 1814 April 4-1817, undated. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

Correspondence from physician and botanist James MacBride (1784-1817) of Princeville and Charleston, South Carolina, to Elliott, dated April 4, 1814 to 1817, and undated. Topics include classification, collection, and exchange of plant specimens and a voyage with his family to the mountains, where he hoped to but did not meet naturalist John Eatton Le Conte (1784-1860). MacBride describes meeting with a two Moravian clergymen and plant collectors, Jacob Van Vleck (1751-1831) and Lewis David von Schweinitz (1780-1834), and writes about the death of botanist John Lyon (1765-1814), which he attributed to improper medical care, and his observations of Lyon’s specimens and papers. He also references Elliott’s sketch on botany, offering his services as a transcriber for the publication, Elliot’s suggestion of establishing a medical school in Charleston, and a description of the plant and animal life of the calcareous region of St. John’s Parish.

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