Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949 - 1967 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 leather bound book, 2cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
The book was given to Logan Curator Martin Colledge when RBGE acquired Logan as a satellite garden. Colledge passed it to Barry Unwin who donated it to the RBGE Archives in September 2017.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
1 book containing signatures of visitors to the Logan House gardens between 1949 and 1967. Signatures include many significant figures in the horticultural world- Euan and Peter Cox, Vita Sackville-West using her married name of Nicolson, Cicely M. Crewdson, George Taylor, numerous landowners, members of RBGE staff and, in 1955, HRH, Elizabeth R.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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/
Conditions governing reproduction
Permission required from RBGE
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Good, though some loss to the leather on the back cover.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
stored alongside Logan archives
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Taylor, Sir George (Subject)
- Crewdson, Cicely Maud (Subject)
- Henderson, Douglas Mackay (Subject)
- Fletcher, Harold Roy (Subject)
- Evans, Alfred (Subject)
- Cowan, John MacQueen (Subject)
- Kemp, Dr. Edward Edmund (Subject)
- Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven (Subject)
- Cox, Peter (Subject)