April 12, 2024
1910, Botanist, Charles S. Sargent, TLS re; Boston
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This item is a wonderful,original letter, dated 1910, Arnold Arboretum letterhead; w Charles Sprague Sargent has signed a typed letter to a Miss Bradley regarding the amount of donations that have come in and the plan to have renewed artistic developement in the City of Boston...signed C.S.S Sargent; 8x11;minor wrinkles,else in fine shape. Charles Sprague Sargent (April 21, 1841-March 22, 1927) was an American botanist. He was the first director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, and the standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he described. Sargent was the second son of Henrietta (Gray) and Ignatius Sargent, a Boston merchant and banker who grew wealthy on railroad investments. He grew up on his father's 130 acre (526,000 m²) estate in Brookline, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College, w he graduated in the Class of 1862. He enlisted in the Union Army later that year, saw service in Louisiana during the American Civil War, and was mustered out in 1865, after which he traveled in Europe for three years. Having returned to his family's Brookline estate Holmlea, Sargent took over its management as a horticulturist, influenced by his cousin Henry and H. H. Hunnewell of Wellesley. Under his direction, the family estate became a landscape without flower bed,or geometric arrangements, but rather
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