Carver Discusses Peanut Plant Disease with Illustration in an Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed.

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Carver is recognized for plant disease research as well as reviving the peanut industry. Here, he includes a sketch of a new disease for peanuts in this detailed Autograph Letter Signed on Tuskegee Institute Stationery, 2pp on one 4to sheet, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Aug. 30, 1930.

Carver draws a sketch of the "dark spores" which signal plant disease. In the second paragraph, Carver explains, "Another disease has manifested itself, much to my suprise[sic], diplodia [sketch] spores ...on the roots, stems and pods of the peanuts...Please send me more...I have never seen this disease on peanuts before...look for it on cotton stalks...."  Carver wrote to Grady Porter, friend and a researcher from a peanut processing plant in Columbus, Georgia.  Carver ends the letter with a reminder to look for the disease on other plants. Signed, "G. W. Carver." Holograph envelope addressed to Porter at the Tom Huston Peanut Co. included.Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He was a research botanist and agricultural educator known as “The Peanut Man” in recognition or his research on peanut diseases which extended to other legumes and to sweet potatoes. He developed hundreds of peanut based products including peanut oil, but he missed out on inventing peanut butter.    Purchase directly from Schulsonautographs.com Item ID: 5041