Letters to George Bentham [manuscript], 1835 March 16 and 18.

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Letters to George Bentham [manuscript], 1835 March 16 and 18.

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Neal writes to the English botanist introducing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and listing and forwarding some plants gathered from Mt. Washington.

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