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This series holds materials written by the Mead family. Theodore Mead's notebook contains lists of plants organized chronologically. At the end of the book are some separate lists that are not dated. Correspondence includes letters written by Mead, his mother, Mary and his wife, Edith. Some letters are written to Mead and to his father, Samuel. The handwritten correspondence does not discuss plants, but the transcripts, which do not match the handwritten letters, are more revealing of life in Central Florida.

Series I holds materials written by Nehrling either in his own handwriting or published in newspapers. The series begins with several individual files; outgoing correspondence includes lists of letters written as well as typewritten and handwritten letters on a variety of subjects. Letters written to A. H. Andrews may have been published in the American Eagle. One book review is only in note form. News clippings show the places where Nehrling published his writing apart from the American Eagle. He prepared outlines for books that do not seem to have been published. Some of the incomplete writing may relate to these plans for more publications. Nehrling used published materials for information about plants and these are all marked with their sources. The first sub series consists of articles written for the American Eagle, beginning with printed copies of the newspaper that continue until 1970 because Nehrling's articles were so popular that they continued to be reprinted long after his death. Nehrling's partial index of his American Eagle articles precedes his manuscripts of the articles arranged chronologically. The second sub series holds manuscripts for which no publication information exists arranged alphabetically. These manuscripts are all written in his own hand apart from The Amaryllis which is typewritten. The final sub series contains incomplete writings arranged alphabetically with a folder containing a few sheets whose topic could not be identified. Writings with the same title but held in separate sub series are similar, but they are not exact duplicates.

Series I includes both incoming and outgoing original correspondence between Henry Nehrling and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. The series also includes letters between individuals other than Nehrling, which were collected by Nehrling family. Letters are arranged chronologically and kept in the original order as they were received. Most of the letters are written in English but some are in German; documents either handwritten or typescript papers.

Contains Frederick DeCoste's writings, manuscripts, published or unpublished.