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Cuttings of John MacWatt's contributions to newspapers

Set of cuttings taken from newspapers and relating to Dr John Macwatt, including his obituaries.

A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.

Account book (252 x 200 x 22mm) with pasted in or interleaved additions annotated in pen in John MacWatt’s hand, of various dates in the 1920s and 1930s but not in date order. Contents include newspaper and journal cuttings (many from Amateur Gardening, also Popular Gardening, The Garden, Country Life etc); reviews of The Primulas of Europe; an offprint of John MacWatt’s paper to the 1913 Primula Conference and illustrations from the papers of other speakers; letter from William Wright Smith, 8 January 1937, acknowledging the gift to RBGE of 42 lantern slides and 86 negatives of Primulas; Wright Smith’s obituary and other cuttings related to George Forrest; an invitation to a dinner to celebrate Amateur Gardening’s 50th anniversary; prints and postcards from a trip to Shetland in 1935; letter from Lady Haddington and newspaper cuttings regarding the opening of Morelands to the public for charity on 30 August 1932; and loose illustrations from The Primulas of Europe and other publications.

Account book (217 x 184 x 28mm), marked ‘PRIVATE LEDGER’ on spine, with additions pasted in and annotated, generally in ink, in John MacWatt’s hand. Contents, dated 1913 on, include handwritten copies or drafts of articles for The Garden, newspaper and journal cuttings (many from The Garden, also Gardener’s Chronicle, Popular Gardening, Amateur Gardening, etc), prints of Primulas, sometimes with annotations attributing the photograph to Amy Cameron; cuttings from The Times of India Illustrated Weekly (1923,1926) including photographs of Major-General R.C. MacWatt, (John MacWatt’s younger brother); cuttings from various publications regarding Chelsea 1927 and the associated Royal visit; and an official copy of a War Office letter 22 April 1918, confirming the appointment of Mr J. MacWatt as Medical Officer and temporary Captain in the Berwickshire Volunteer Regiment.

MacWatt's copy of Pax, F and Knuth, R, Das Pflanzenreich, IV 237 Primulaceae Leipzig 1905, a leather-bound volume (245 x 170 x 35mm) with annotations in both pencil and ink in John MacWatt’s hand, with cuttings, notes and illustrations of Primulas pasted in or loosely interleaved.

A collection of John MacWatt's writing, including both published and draft articles; also poetry, newspaper cuttings and pieces of writing associated with MacWatt's work.

John MacWatt's published works.

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘European Primulas’, offprint from RHS Journal of his paper read to the April 1913 Primula Conference. Two copies (each 248 x 157 x 2mm), one inscribed in ink on the cover ‘To Anne/ from her father/ John MacWatt’.

MacWatt, Dr John, ‘Ferns for the Rock Garden’, undated private publication or possible offprint from an unidentified journal; three copies (each 216 x 139 x 1mm), two held in a paper wrapper.