For Further Reading - John Lawson

Print Sources

Bolen, Eric G. “John Lawson’s Legendary Journey.” Wildlife in North Carolina. December 1998: 22-27.

Breytspraak, Charlotte, and Jack Breytspraak. “Historical Profile: John Lawson.” Journal of the New Bern Historical Society 1.1 (1992): 29-31.

Dandy, J.E., ed. The Sloane Herbarium: An Annotated List of the Horti Sicci Comprising It, with Biographical Accounts of the Principal Contributors. Intro. Spencer Savage. London:The British Museum, 1958.  

Dill, A. T. “Graffenried, Christoph, baron von (15 Nov 1661-November? 1743).” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Ed. William S. Powell. Vol. 2. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. 34-36. 6 vols. 1979-1996.

 Holloman, Charles R. “Lawson, John (27 December 1674-16 September 1711).” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Ed. William S. Powell. Vol. 4. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1967. 327-28. 6 vols. 1979-1996.

Hudson, Marjorie. Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson. North Carolina Literary Review 1.1 (1992): 62-82.

Hudson, Marjorie. John Lawson and the Warring Nations: A Meditation on Images of Terror and 'The Other,' North Carolina Literary Review 11 (2002) Forthcoming.

Hudson, Marjorie. Two Conferences Honor the Legacy of John Lawson, Carolina’s Gentleman Naturalist and Writer, North Carolina Literary Review 11 (2002) Forthcoming.

Lawson, John. A New Voyage to Carolina. Ed. Hugh Talmage Lefler. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1967.

Lefler, Hugh Talmage. Introduction. Lawson xi-liv.

Lindgren, W. H., III. “Agricultural Propaganda in Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 49 (1972): 333-44.

Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1968.

Shields, E. Thomson, Jr. “Paradise Regained Again: The Literary Context of John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina.” North Carolina Literary Review 1.1 (1992): 83-97.

Sir Hans Sloane, revised and edited by J.E. Dandy, The Sloane Herbarium (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1958).

Sloatman, Fred. “John Lawson—A Man of Influence.” Journal of the New Bern Historical Society 11.2 (1998): 21-26.

Online Sources

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