2 sets of drawings on paper that has been mounted on thicker paper (packaging from air mail stationary)

each sheet appears to be from draft writings, slits in upper corners where they were once attached to either each other and/or other sheets of paper.

front (in pen): various sketches of riding a horse up steep steps and near ledges of cliffs.

reverse (in pencil): various sketches of a horse or part of a horse, some parts scribbled out.

2 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

Transcription

British Museum (Nat Hist)
Cromwell Road
SW7

Sept-24 [1952]

Dear Hicks,

Pleased keep the Birds of SE Tibet. I have others you will be interested to see that Codonopsis convolvulacea was exhibited at the RHS [Royal Horticultural Society] show yesterday I received an award of Merit! Gentiana depress an all received an A.M. [Award of Merit] a fortnight ago.

You seem to have had an interesting time in the Welsh hills. I don’t know them at all except distant views of Snowdon [Yr Wyddfa] etc from the Conway. They looked attractive. What a pity it is there is not a 10000’ peak somewhere in Britain!

Come in when you are next in town

Yours
F. Ludlow

A black and white photograph, mounted on thick board with a metal hood fixed to the top (to hang like an ornament?) and a handwritten message on the back.

Not signed but the message is in Frank Ludlow's handwriting.

The photograph is in black and white and features a yak and a small Tibetan child. Presumably taken by Ludlow in 1936.

TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]
[Photograph]

[REVERSE]

Tibet 1936 [Photograph]
With all good wishes for Xmas
and the New Year

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper.

Photograph of porter with horse. second horse and porter in background.

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

On the road near Byiti Sim. Half way to Kingarapden
30/Mar/49
49.A.7.4

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick grey paper.

Photograph of porters (six in total), with 2 horses further back. By the tree to the left, Betty Sherriff (left) & George Sherriff (right) can be seen on either side.

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

On the way to Kingarapden [Kuenga Rabten]. Halt to press a specimen.
30/Mar/49
49.A.7.3

A single bound reprint that includes 2 parts, an article by Frank Ludlow and a list of the birds. Originally published separately in The Ibis in 1944:

• The Birds of South-Eastern Tibet. By Frank Ludlow (with Notes by N.B. Kinnear), from The Ibis for January 1944, p. 43-86.
  Ludlow, F. and Kinnear, N.B. (1944), The Birds of South-eastern Tibet. Ibis, 86: 43-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1944.tb07533.x

• Ludlow, F. (1944), The Birds of South-eastern Tibet. Ibis, 86: 176-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1944.tb03877.x

A single bound reprint of an article by Frank Ludlow. Originally published in The Ibis in October 1951.

Ludlow, F. (1951), THE BIRDS OF KONGBO AND POME, SOUTH-EAST TIBET. Ibis, 93: 547-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1951.tb05458.x