Papers of Susan Delano McKelvey, 1919-1964 (inclusive).

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Papers of Susan Delano McKelvey, 1919-1964 (inclusive).

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The McKelvey papers span the years 1919-1964 and include articles, research papers and notes, correspondence, photographs, maps and manuscripts. The papers reflect her activities as a member of the Arboretum Visiting committee, a research associate working with lilacs and yuccas, and a botanical explorer of the Southwestern United States. Includes incoming correspondence from various horticultural societies, botanical gardens and others, and some outgoing letters concerning McKelvey's research on lilacs. Material concerning McKelvey's research on Yuccas is currently held at the Library of the Gray Herbarium, in Cambridge.

ca. 8 linear ft.

Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum, Horticultural Library, Jamacia Plain

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Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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The Arnold Arboretum has had a long association with its sister institution the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. However, it was during Donald Wyman's tenure as Horticulturist of the Arnold Arboretum, from 1935 to 1969, that the relationship florished. In addition to being a Trustee of the Society, Wyman also served on many of the Society's committees. The various Prize Committes required visiting many Massachusetts' estates and gardens and these visits were often documented through photogra...

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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McKelvey, Susan Delano

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McKelvey, Susan Delano, 1883-1964.

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Susan Delano McKelvey was born in 1883 in Philadelphia, PA; a socialite, a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A 1906 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she married a young attorney named Charles Wylie McKelvey in 1907. She later left New York and her husband to start a new life in Boston. The couple, who officially divorced in 1930, had two sons. In 1919, McKelvey contacted Charles Sprague Sargent the director of the Arboretum, and as a volunteer was first assigned to washing clay pots. Sargent ...