Reginald Farrer - Farrer Family Collection
- GB 235 RJF/2
- Fonds
- 1880-2004
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
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Reginald Farrer - Farrer Family Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer, Reginald John
Farrer written material, box 1; Farrer's youth
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box 1: 1880-1902; includes Farrer's birth announcement and certificates and four folders of correspondence, mainly to his mother from Ingleborough, Newnham Rectory, Balliol College, Scarborough and Europe.
Farrer Family
Farrer Family Collection - photographic material
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer Family
Farrer written material, box 8; Farrer's plays and poems
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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
Farrer written material, box 2; early travels and Parliamentary campaign
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box 2: 1903-1913; includes Royal Horticultural Society certificates, 1902-1913; correspondence relating to Japan trip 1903; general correspondence mainly to mother and E.A. Bowles, 1905-1913; correspondence from Kandy, Ceylon and Colombo, 1908; correspondence from Canada, 1908; correspondence from Europe, 1908; correspondence to and from the Herberts, mainly 1908; correspondence from European trip, family and E.A. Bowles, 1910; items relating to Farrer's Parliamentary campaign, Ashford, Kent, 1910; correspondence from European trip, 1912; and copy of Primula Hybrids in Nature by R. Farrer from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1913.
Farrer Family
Reginald Farrer - Lakeland Horticultural Society Photographic Albums
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
The albums appear to be from William Purdom who travelled and collected plants with Reginald Farrer in Kansu / Gansu, northern China in 1914-1915, but one was compiled by Reginald Farrer and three relate to their collecting trip, so all 5 albums have been stored within the Reginald Farrer collection.
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 01/11/1912 from Ananda [Farrer], Kensington, London to Vasanta [Celia Noble]
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Invitation to a Bhuddist meeting in response to her request, empathy to her suffering, of her hands.
Farrer, Reginald John
Reginald Farrer – correspondence to Lady Celia Brunel Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
A collection of 21 letters donated to the RBGE Archives in 2017, written by Reginald Farrer and sent to Lady Celia Brunel Noble.
Noble, Lady Celia Brunel
letter dated 1914 from Farrer, Hotel Wagonlits, Peking, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Business letter regarding silks, hangings/pieces/ coats purchased from Imperial Palace. List, costs of each item, used his own money to buy as her banker's draft not arrived. Suggests to bake, disinfect and clean items to rid of infectious germs. In ps suggestions of other items to purchase.
Farrer, Reginald John
Farrer written material, box 3; China Kansu expedition with William Purdom
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box 3: 1914-1916; includes letter from William Purdom outlining plans for 1914 China Expedition; correspondence from 1914-15 China expedition; some letters to and from Isaac Bayley Balfour, 1915; correspondence to parents from Japan, [1916?]; various maps of Kansu, China; Farrer's writings about Kansu - published reprints and manuscripts, 1916-18; Farrer's writings about Kansu - not known if published; newspaper cuttings including articles written about the 'White Wolf' of Kansu, c.1914, some written by Farrer; invoices from Kansu expedition; list of slides relating to Kansu expedition compiled in 1985; transcriptions of two photograph albums relating to Kansu expedition [RJF/2/2/3-4]; miscellaneous ephemera.
Farrer Family