Guide to the Sibthorp family papers, 1781–1871

HI Archives collection no. 38
1.75 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize portfolio)

Contents List

Papers and Correspondence - Box 1, 1804–1871, n.d.
Container(s) Description Dates Online
Box 1 Folder 1 Autograph Letter, M. E. Sewell to Humphrey W. Sibthorp. 1818 View
Box 1 Folder 2 Autograph Letter, Henry Sibthorp to [unnamed] brother 16 April ? View
Box 1 Folder 3 Autograph letter, H. Sibthorp, father of Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp 1804 View
Box 1 Folder 4 Autograph letter, H. (Henry S., father?) to Col. Humphrey Sibthorp 1815 View
Box 1 Folder 5 Invoice from bookseller/binder for Col. Humphrey Sibthorp 1817 View
Box 1 Folder 6 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1815 View
Box 1 Folder 7 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1822 View
Box 1 Folder 8 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1824 View
Box 1 Folder 9 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins January 1826 View
Box 1 Folder 10 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins May 1826 View
Box 1 Folder 11 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1829 View
Box 1 Folder 12 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1831 View
Box 1 Folder 13 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins 1841 View
Box 1 Folder 14 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to [unknown] recipient 1826 View
Box 1 Folder 15 Autograph letter, Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879) to [unknown] recipient [regarding imminent death of brother Coningsby Waldo Sibthorp (1781–1822)] [1822] View
Box 1 Folder 16 Autograph letter, George Tallents (Newark, England) to Mrs. H. W. Sibthorp (Mary Esther neé Ellison) 1870 View
Box 1 Folder 17 Accounts concerning the affairs of the estate of the late Rev. H. W. Sibthorp/Mrs. H. W. Sibthorp 1869–1871, n.d. View
Box 1 Folder 18 Autograph letter, [Charlotte Mary ?] to Mrs. Sibthorp, and receipt [1850]–1855 View
Box 1 Folder 19 Autograph letter, Charles Waldo Sibthorp (1783–1855) to his mother (signed "your most affec ate Son") 12 March [1800?] View
Box 1 Folder 20 Autograph letter, Humphrey W. Sibthorp, to Major Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp 1859 View
Box 1 Folder 21 Autograph letter, Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) to Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (1753–1835), statement, autographs 1830–1891 View
Oversize portfolio of parchment documents - Oversize 1, 1781–1847
Container(s) Description Dates Online
Certificate of Commission to G. T. W. Sibthorp 1847 View
Certificate of Commission to H. W. Sibthorp 1794 View
Document - disposal of goods of the late Rebecca Waldo to next-of-kin Humphrey Sibthorp 1781 View

Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, accounts and related miscellany. The persons involved include Col. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp; Richard Waldo Sibthorp; Henry Sibthorp; Henry's uncle, M. E. Sewell; Henry's unnamed brother; Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp; Charles Waldo Sibthorp; and Mrs. Juliet Hawkins, addressed as "sister" by Richard Waldo Sibthorp. Also found here are documents, including Humphrey Sibthorp's commission (1794) as colonel in the army, signed by King George III of England, and Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp's commission as captain in the Royal North Lincoln Militia (1847). These items are nonbotanical, and there is nothing of famous botanists Humphrey or John Sibthorp.

Finding Aid Note

This finding aid was entered into ArchiveSpace by Nancy Janda in 2020.

Related Materials

For information on botanist John Sibthorp, see HI Archives collection no. 74, John Sibthorp papers.

Processing Information

This collection was digitized by G. Boardman in 2015.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item], [date(s) of item]. Depository: Sibthorp family papers (1781–1871), Hunt Institute Archives collection no. 38 (box [box number], folder [folder number]), Archives, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pa.