Charles Tait, Letters

Collection — Box: Small Collections 8

Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0359

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Senator, judge, cotton planter and naturalist, he opened his home in Claiborne, Alabama to many explorers and collectors who were passing through. Elected a correspondent of the Academy in 1832, he, several times, attended courses of lectures at the Academy of Natural Sciences, as he did also in New Haven.

Dates

1829-1835

Creator

Tait, Charles, 1768-1835 (Person)

Extent

1 folder(s) (23 items)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of a descendant, Mrs. Samuel Woods, 1908 who had found them among family papers. Two letters from Mrs. Woods gives biographical details of the Judge and replies from E. J. Nolan are preserved with this collection.

General

Signers of letters: Carey & Lea (2) 1830; Conrad, T. A. (2) 1833-34; Finch, John, 1834; Hale, William, 1834; Key & Biddle, 1835; Lea, Isaac (6) 1829-32; Morton, Samuel George (4) 1832-34; Nolan, E. J. (2) 1908; Silliman, Benjamin, 1834; Woods, (~rs.1J a me s (2) 1908.