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Correspondence from Amiel Weeks Whipple to John Torrey, dated 1855, discussing issues related to the production of the published report of the Pacific Railroad survey he led in 1853. The collection also includes an unidentified newspaper clipping containing an account of Whipple's funeral in Portsmouth New Hampshire in 1863

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online

Subjects: Correspondence; Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863 -- Correspondence; Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863. Report of explorations for a railway route near the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence; Bigelow, John M. (John Milton), 1804-1878; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883; United States Pacific Railroad Expeditions and Surveys