Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Letters from James MacBride to Stephen Elliott 1812 October 7-1814 March 8. 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 from October 7, 1812 to March 8, 1814. Topics include medicinal plants, including Vernonia angustifolia, which MacBride claims has cured syphilis in enslaved people; collection, preservation, and exchange of botanical specimens; the cardiovascular system of the alligator; a recipe for a headache Elliott was suffering; observations of local plants; and specimens of shells from limestone stratum MacBride was sending. He also writes about his health and a voyage he took across the Blue Ridge Mountains to reach Warm Springs, Tennessee, where he missed meeting naturalist John Eatton Le Conte (1784-1860).

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