Primula serratifolia, F1054, Hpawshi Bum
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/6
- Item
- 26/06/1919
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Primula serratifolia, F1054, Hpawshi Bum
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Primula silaensis, F1695?, Chawchi
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Primula viola-grandis [Omphallogramma vinciflorum?], No 6
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Primula, Androsace chamaejasme [now lutea], Cassiope myosuroides, F1058, F1059, F1048, Hpawshi Bum
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Reginald Farrer - correspondence to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
A collection of 13 letters purchased at auction in 2008, written by Reginald Farrer and most likely sent to the British Diplomat Ernest Frederick Gye C.M.G., though Farrer tends to refer to him as his “Poison”, “Viper” or “Venom”.
Gye's mother was the singer Dame Emma Albani and his father was Ernest Gye, the lessee of Covent Garden theatre. Gye entered the Foreign Office in 1903, became Second Secretary in 1908 and Councillor in 1924. He served for some years in Tehran in the earlier part of his career (and where he was when these letters were written) before being appointed Minister and Consul General in Tangier in 1933. Three years later he was made Minister Plenipotentiary in Venezuela, retiring in 1939.
The 13 letters were written in Upper Burma (now Myanmar), mainly from Hpimaw and Nyitadi, and date between May 1919 and September 1920, the last being written only five weeks before his death. The letters are liberally peppered with nicknames and gossip, and the identity of everyone mentioned may never be known; for example, his 1919 travelling companion, fellow plant collector Euan Cox, is often referred to by the name “Jumps”. In amongst intimate information and personal references are descriptions of the country, people met and plants collected.
Gye, Ernest Frederick
Reginald Farrer - correspondence with Douglas Henderson et al, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Folder of mainly copy letters from Reginald Farrer to Euan H.M. Cox dating between February and September 1920, some typed transcripts, all copied by Cox's son Peter in 1987, alongside associated correspondence between Peter Cox and D.M. Henderson, then Regius Keeper at RBGE, arranging to have the letters copied and stored at RBGE.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Two folders relating to Farrer's second expedition to Upper Burma between 1919 and 1920 and his death there. Correspondence is mainly between Farrer and William Wright Smith, Deputy Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but also Isaac Bayley Balfour, Lionel de Rothschild, S.R. Fasoms, and post Farrer's death, Claude Barton of the Ingleborough Estate Office, Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Euan H.M. Cox, H.M. Farrer of Farrer and Co. solicitors [dealing with Farrer's estate] and Farrer's mother, Bessie requesting coloured paintings of Gentiana farreri and Lilium farreri so that glass windows may be made up for the church in Clapham.
There are also seed and plant lists, identifications and distribution lists to subscribers [though no list of subscribers was found].
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer - Farrer Family Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John