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Reginald Farrer Collection

Reginald Farrer Collection

  • GB 235 RJF
  • Collection
  • 1880 - 2004

The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.

Farrer, Reginald John

Farrer written material, box 8; Farrer's plays and poems

Box 8: Plays / Dramas by Reginald Farrer, including 'La Reine des Perses' [in French], 20/03/1895, includes poem 'Hymn to Astarte Syriaca', 10/06/1895; 'The Martyr', 25/09/1903-05/10/1903; 'The House of Stark' - various drafts; 'Hearts and Diamonds' - just last Act, but includes Farrer's illustration of 'Lady C'; and 'The Spanish Duchess'.

Farrer Family

Reginald Farrer, box of glass plate negatives

1 box of quarter glass plate negatives mainly of plants taken in China[?] but also includes what appears to be [and what the Farrer family claim to be] two of the first complete descent into 'Gaping Gill' near Ingleborough by Martel in 1895[?]

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