LeConte and Furman family papers, 1861-1897 [manuscript].

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LeConte and Furman family papers, 1861-1897 [manuscript].

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Chiefly family letters, 1869-1897, of Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) of South Carolina, geologist, chemist, and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to his daughter Emma (1847-1932), wife of Farish Carter Furman, a Milledgeville, Ga., agriculturalist. Letters relate to scientific work, teaching, university life, family life, and travels to Yosemite and other California and mountain areas. Also included are correspondence, 1870-1894, of Furman regarding his agricultural experiments with cotton and soil fertilization, and histories (photocopies) of the LeConte and Stevens families by Walter LeConte Stevens, 1880-1910.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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