GB 235 ANT/1 - photo album including photographs of John Anthony and his family, Edinburgh views and photos relating to World War One, including the Edinburgh University Officers Training Corps at Peebles in 1915 showing Cadets Brown, Purves, Mills, Anthony, Smith, Hatton and Wallinck; Anthony with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Oswestry and Llangollen (Anthony, Evans, Edwards, Gavin, Richards and Mitford) and Capt J Anthony M.C. and Capt J.H. Dick M.C. on the Somme in 1916.
GB 235 ANT/2 - Transcripts of 'The Identification of British Trees, Shrubs and Under Shrubs by means of the Microscopic Structure of their Wood', including photographs - 2 copies, loose sheets.
GB 235 ANT/3 - Original Manuscript for Flora of Sutherland, c.1970 - comparison with the published version shows the extent of J.B. Kenworthy's editing, as described in his introduction (right click, open link in new tab): http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/John_Anthonys_Flora_of_Sutherland

Eight boxes of material relating to Roland Edgar Cooper who was Curator (Head Gardener) at the Royal Botanic Garden between 1934 and 1950. Material consists of correspondence, field notes, photographs and maps from his plant collecting expeditions in Sikkim, Bhutan and Punjab between 1913 and 1916, and family / genealogical information.

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

Transcription

BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London

18/7/64

My dear Hicks,

Yours of the 4 July, Sherriff [George Sherriff], I know, has written to you about the photographs. I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan. I have no slides in the Museum. If you will let me know what negatives or transparencies you want, I will send them on of course, the colour transparencies good as they were in 1949, are not up to present-day standards. That cannot be expected. I had a fortnight in Scotland and enjoyed my stay three immensely. I spent 3 days, in Edinburgh working in the Herbarium, which is now housed in a new and magnificent building which the Queen [Elizabeth II] opened a short time ago. Apart from occasional attacks of arthritis Sherriff [George Sherriff] seemed very fit. Betty [Betty Sherriff] too was in fine form, very busy as usual with a multitude of tasks.

Yours,
F. Ludlow

[Letter included a list of photograph negatives that Hicks took in East Bhutan.]

Reply
Will come to London to choose x copy?

1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

The letter is undated, but based on the content is believed to have been written c. 1951

Transcription

British Museum (Natural History)
Cromwell Road
London SW7

[n.d.]

Dear Hicks,

Thanks for your card. Delighted to hear you are in town. I cannot manage evenings, I fear, as I live out at Rickmansworth, but any day that suits you will suit me at the Museum (Except March 21st and 22nd ) Drop in any day you are free (not Sundays) about noon and we will have lunch somewhere, and talk over old days. I am working out our plants by degrees. You got a lot of very good things in East Bhutan, and your material is absolutely first class.

I was to have gone to Nepal this summer but it fell through owning to political trouble. I am not greatly disappointed. I am getting to old for these treks.

Yours sincerely,
F. Ludlow

1 sheet written on both sides. Written by Frank Ludlow for JH Hicks

Sent with letter HJH/3/3/4 'Letter from F Ludlow to JH Hicks,' 18 July 1949: "I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan."

Contains a list of photographs of specimens taken by JH Hicks in East Bhutan.

Each line contains the specimen number, specimen name and denotes if it was taken in 'B&W' [black and white] or 'colour'

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

• Diary Materials 1, 1949
• Diary Materials 2, 1949
• Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
• letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
• Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
• small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
• cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
• 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
• newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
• 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow

14 artworks, primarily watercolours, by JH Hicks during his trip to Bhutan in 1949

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick grey paper.

Photograph of people walking on a dusty road carrying packs. Hills to the left and in the distance. Leading the group is Major George Sherriff (on foot) and his wife Betty Sherriff (on the horse to the left of G.Sherriff)

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

Entering the hills. Three miles beyond Hatisar [Hatisar F.V, India]
27/Mar/49
49.A.7.1

2 black and white photographs mounted on thick grey paper.

title taken from Hick's 'Index of negatives'

Writing on the back of paper behind each photograph, no dates written. NOTE: rough dates derived from subject descriptions in Hicks' 'Index of negatives' found in his itinerary (GB235 HJH/4/1)

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