Rhododendron species “green shooters”, F979 [Rhododendron decorum]
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/52
- Item
- 31/05/1919
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
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Rhododendron species “green shooters”, F979 [Rhododendron decorum]
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Corydalis melanochlora, with [last?] on highest ridges
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Incarvillea grandiflora, Wolvesden
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Meconopsis psilonomma (ex.icon.orig?)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Primula farreri / Primula species, No.29, Wolvesden Pass
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Stellera (stems should be stiffer and the plant forms a perfect domed bush), above Siku
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Trollius pumilus and Geranium species, Wolvesden
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 29/05/1919 from Farrer, Hpimaw Fort, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Pleased to get letter from Ernest Gye, nickname Poison - shared letter with Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox]. Speaks of the restless desire to impress & seeks gossip of English friends. Ernest writing of going to Tangiers. Describes at length he and Jumps picking raspberries to make jam, concoction insipid. Then reverted to making better jam with wild white strawberries. Writes of Jumps as youthful, unlike him who is becoming of crabbed age. Describes how a brace of young boys, Gurkhas have joined their camp. Painting primula in a tent, through a dense fog of midges and smoke. Requests from Ernest to purchase 2 or 3 Everyman volumes of Floris's Montaigne, delights in the first one. This letter is signed your loving Poppet. Jumps cooking until the Chinese cook has recovered from his cliff fall. ps Gossipy enquiries and comments. Encouraging E. Gye when writing, to be thoroughly indiscreet and viscous. Speaks of his own return to a de-Poisoned London. [Poison = E. Gye] Describes the place abounding in the most preposterous brambles - titanic wilderness of thorns, beset with raspberries in almost every colour & degree of nastiness. Wondering if Jumps [Euan M. Cox] is like all Scotch lower (or middle) class minds, are alike in a sort of Jackdawish unassimilating appetitiveness.
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 25/06/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Yesterday, a coolie brought three letters from E. Gye, and 90 others from friends, all sopping wet and these were dried over the kitchen hearth. Pleased to get them, gives advice about E. Gye's life although aware it is likely to be out of date - surprised E. Gye going off to Tehran and sad he will not be in London when he returns. Writes again that he is enjoying his solitude without Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] as he felt responsible for his enjoyment - in camp it has been raining solidly for 3 weeks. Rewriting his book called Empty House about which he begs E. Gye to comment. Writes of Amelia, a friend again, thanks E. Gye for a book. Notes he has received money from R.G.S. (The Gill Award) £36 & royalties of £24 from the Eaves, which he views as windfalls. ‘All letters were sopping wet, caked into a pie. Sadness can't be allowed to mean shirking: one may cry over the broken eggs but the omelette of life has to go on being made all the same. Indeed I'm an egg myself: appreciate me please.’
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 25/07/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writes of friends in London, writes of being positively happy in the mountains in the rain - painting & writing. Complains of paints being too slow drying and having to be baked by a bonfire. Now down in Capua, hoping for post and going in a fortnight to Moku-ji pass. Enjoying reading La Trompeuse and other books. Also rewriting Empty House, cutting out large sections - again not sure it will pass the agent, reader or censor.
Farrer, Reginald John