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•Copy of letter to F.M. Webb, 4th of December 1876
•Correspondence from James Groves re: Henry Groves dated 1922 with Sir George Watt filed under “Watt, Sir. George” papers

•Correspondence dated 1912 -1913 on “Primula”, filed with subject material under “Primula”, Box 1 in main index

•2 letters, dated 1801 & 1803, from Thomas Horsfield in Batavia to Dr. Roxburgh, Calcutta, previously filed under “Roxburgh, Dr. Wm.” At this time, Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and corresponds with Jakarta, Indonesia today.
Second letter relates to Thomas Horsfield exploring the vegetation of Java, learning of indiginous knowledge of medicinal plants and his thoughts of publishing a 'Plantae Javanicae Rariores', which he eventually did.

•1 page of a draft of ‘A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus’, written by Hayes, Keenan and Cowan (copy in Index Box I-K) - original draft filed with J.M. Cowan papers
•Folder containing- 11 page report titled ‘Battleby House: A Survey of Some Important Trees ’ (J. Eric Robson, October 1970),
•3 copies each of Battleby Estate Management Plans 2 & 3 & “Trail” plans
•28 page Report on “Battleby House Estate” by J Keenan, 19 October 1972; referencing 119 tree species
•2 copies of two page ‘Battleby Report Continuation’ (J Keenan, 19 June 1973), duplicate copies tree records, 29 – 40, 79-107 &108-119
•4 letters to Keenan from Peter J. Bickmore, Projects Advisory Officer for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (letters from 1971-73) and one from Tom Huxley, Assistant Director of Resource Management for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (1972) (Folder in in Index Box I-K)

• 3 hand drawn maps & 1 printed map of an Expedition in Siam (1921), Chengmai district, N. Thailand, to be found in Archive Box I-K. 2 expeditions were taken during 1921. Routes followed day by day marked in red. Jan-April and late April –Jun. Printed map of the Kingdom of Siam and neighbouring states pre-1939
• Hand written list of plants extracted from a copy of J.G. Koenig's ‘Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779’ (April 26th 1931), in folder in Archive Box I-K. Plants noted at Ban Pak nam, Siam. Some plants introduced since his visit.

•Folder containing rough work and correspondence relating to the transcription of work regarding the Flora of Turkey, part of The University of Edinburgh’s Botany Unit onto floppy discs (1979)

Folder containing two copies of the catalogue for ‘The Botanical Paintings, 1932-1982’ exhibition and 2 sets of 8 postcards, and 2 cards (merchandise) of Botanical plates from the exhibition.

•Some correspondence is filed with Sir William Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir William W.” “ Rhododendron Correspondence,” material boxed alphabetically in these boxes

•Folder containing a covering letter dated 26 June 1933 from Logan Turner to W. W. Smith requesting the preservation of an autograph notebook belonging to John M. McFarlane in the library of the Dept. of Botany, Edinburgh. The notebook contains ‘Remarks on the Fossil flora of Edinburgh and Neighbourhood, by John M. McFarlane, session 1877 and a pencilled copy of transcript of Foster & Balfour’s “Embryology”
•McFarlane, John M. (Edinburgh & USA) correspondence dated 1888 – 1905, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under, “McFarlane, John M.”

•Folder containing lists and records of plants
references to plants received by Mackechnie from E.C. Wallace, J.E. Lousley, P.M. Hall, W.A. Sledge and J.W. Heslop-Harrison amongst others