Incarvillea grandiflora, Wolvesden
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/54
- Stuk
- 08/06/1915
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Incarvillea grandiflora, Wolvesden
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Trollius pumilus and Geranium species, Wolvesden
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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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.
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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.
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Meconopsis psilonomma (ex.icon.orig?)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Rhododendron species “green shooters”, F979 [Rhododendron decorum]
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Corydalis melanochlora, with [last?] on highest ridges
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Stellera (stems should be stiffer and the plant forms a perfect domed bush), above Siku
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Primula farreri / Primula species, No.29, Wolvesden Pass
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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