Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

Personal Correspondence, 1904-1915 (0.6 linear feet), arranged alphabetically, consists of Bartlett's personal correspondence as an undergraduate at Harvard and during his time at the Bureau. (This portion of the collection was donated by the University of Virginia Mountain Home Biological Station)

The personal correspondence includes a series of correspondence from genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries regarding plant switching, the effects of World War I on botanical research, and de Vries travels in the United States. The subseries also includes correspondence with Arthur Stanley Pease, an amateur botanist and future president of Amherst College. Additional correspondence with Pease is located in the Correspondence and Associated Material series.