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Leslie A. Lee Papers, 1887-1908
0.33
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M208
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Leslie Alexander Lee was born in Woodstock, Vermont, on September 24, 1852.
His father, John Stebbins Lee, was the first president of St. Lawrence
University. Lee married Elizabeth Tibbetts Almy of New Bedford,
Massachusetts. The couple had three children: Elizabeth, who married Rev.
Frederick Eliot of Cambridge; Sylvia Knowlton Lee (1879-1959), a professor at
the Berkley School in California; and Richard Almy Lee (1886-1907), a member
of the Bowdoin Class of 1908, who drowned with his roommate, John Franklin
Morrison (also Bowdoin 1908), in a yachting accident at sea off Phippsburg,
Maine, during a squall on July 9, 1907. Lee was instructor of natural
history (1876-1881), and professor of geology and biology (1881-1908) at
Bowdoin. He was noted especially for his research expeditions in Labrador and
South America (for more information see the Bowdoin
College Scientific Expeditions to Labrador, 1860 and 1891). Lee's
depression over the loss of his son led to ill health, and he died in
Portland, Maine, on May 20, 1908.
Scope and Content:
Accounts of the voyage of the Albatross, from Virginia, around the tip
of South America, to California (November 21, 1887-April 6, 1888), including
reports to newspapers (February and March 1888); the Albatross voyage
plan and assignment of collections (1887-1888), a scrapbook of the voyage,
letter of introduction for Lee to United States embassy officials in South
America, a special passport for Lee, signed by Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of
State, a ; correspondence (1882-1908), including to Commander G. B. Goode
(1887-1888); lecture broadsides (1882-1884); photographs connected with the
voyage of the "Albatross"; photographs of Lee; a scrapbook of newsclippings
(1875-1891); Lee's handwritten draft of Growth and Metamorphosis of Some
Marine Animals (December 19, 1882); newsclippings and obituaries.
Cite as:
Leslie A. Lee Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &
Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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