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      <dc:title>Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour</dc:title>
  
      <dc:creator>Elwes, Henry John</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley</dc:creator>
  
      <dc:subject>Snelling, Lilian</dc:subject>
  
      <dc:description>Box of correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour, to be added to Isaac Bayley Balfour&amp;#039;s correspondence collection in due course.
There is a reference to John MacWatt and Lilian Snelling in letter 11 from 1915 (Snelling also in letters 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40 - and again throughout 1916. Refs to Snelling coming to Edinburgh and Mrs Balfour getting her lodgings in November 1917. Ref to Snelling attending IBB&amp;#039;s lectures, April 1918
Letter from Dr Homi (Yasuyoshi) Shirasawa in 1910.
27 Sept 1913 - reference to Robert Moyes Adam&amp;#039;s private work
31 Aug 1914 - reference to Isaac Bayley Balfour&amp;#039;s thoughts on photography versus botanical illustrations
26 April 1915 - reference to Inverleith House being commandeered for military purposes
6 May 1915 - referreing to Snelling and Moyes Adam, &amp;quot;She is undoubtedly very clever - a fine colourist. I have given instructions to my photographer to photograph everything she does on the day she draws it so that we may have a sun picture of what she has drawn&amp;quot;
references to Col. F. Bailey&amp;#039;s wounds, 1915
15 June 1915 - reference to L.B. Stewart enlisting
1915, 41 - copy letter from G.H. Cave</dc:description>
  
  
  
  
  
      <dc:format>1 box, 40cm</dc:format>
  
  <dc:identifier>https://atom-2.rbge.org.uk/correspondence-between-henry-john-elwes-and-isaac-bayley-balfour</dc:identifier>

            <dc:identifier>TEMPELW</dc:identifier>
      
  
      <dc:language xsi:type="dcterms:ISO639-3">eng</dc:language>
  
      <dc:relation>https://atom-2.rbge.org.uk/royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh-2</dc:relation>
    <dc:relation>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives</dc:relation>
  
  
      <dc:rights>Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/</dc:rights>
  
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