Samuel Phillips Verner Papers

Résumé du livre

Correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals Verner's efforts to introduce to American farmers and promote cultivation of a species of African rubber plant that he had discovered. Family correspondence, business papers, some of which reflect Verner's efforts to sell insurance and promote real estate developments, letters from various publishing houses and lecture bureaus reflect a period of financial difficulties and efforts to get articles and books published, including letters of Walter H. Page, William Page, William Jennings Bryan, Willa Cather, and others.