Papers relating to education at RBGE
- GB 235 RBG/9
- Deelarchief
- 1670-present
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Papers relating to education at RBGE
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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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Reginald Farrer - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh archives
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Two boxes of correspondence, seed lists and field notes to, from and relating to Reginald Farrer and his expeditions to Kansu (Gansu) in Northern China (1914-1915) and Upper Burma (1919-1920) and one box containing a photo album and letter. These records were likely brought together from various sources within the RBGE Archives so that items relating to Farrer were kept together. It has been decided to keep this collection together.
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Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
GB 235 RJF/1/5/1: letter dated Dec 6 from Reginald Farrer to Mrs Parker found in a donated copy of 'English Rock Garden' by R. Farrer.
GB 235 RJF/1/5/2: Historic England Report, 2016, on assessment of restoration of Farrer's rock garden at Clapham by Rebecca Pullan, HE Research Report Series no.7-2016
GB 235 RJF/1/5/3: Articles by Graham Avery, yet to be listed
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Reginald Farrer - Farrer Family Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Reginald Farrer, items relating to Craven nursery, Clapham
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
RJF/2/4/1/1-2; Ledger and wooden box relating to the Craven Nursery and Farrer's Plant Club. The contents of the box have been left as they were and include receipts, letters, plant lists and a metal key ring? The ledger records plants dispatched and covers 1914-1921.
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Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
1 tube containing 2 certificates: Gill Memorial, May 1920, from the Royal Geographical Society; and South Kent Liberal Association, certificate of condolence after Ashford election, 1910.
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letter dated 26/07/1919 from Farrer, Hpimaw Fort, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writing to "Sweet Poison" [Ernest Gye] as resting after a ten days' trek searching for a hypothetical Rhododendron during which it rained relentlessly. Feels rudderless and needing the anchor of wedlock then swings away from this idea. Fed up with some Captain staying with Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] and him who talks endlessly -Farrer states his ages makes him less tolerant, loses patience and ridicules him for being five-foot-nothing. Soon to go down to Htawgaw then a month's camping in a high-alpine valley which he hopes will be profitable and amusing. Complains of lack of art, architecture and antiquity in this country. Writes of the beauty of Nomocharis pardanthina, like a pink lily with a spotted Odontoglossum all over the alpine meadows, asks Ernest Gye to experiment with its seed.
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letter dated 19/12/1919 from Farrer, Upper Burma Club, Mandalay, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
States he has lost Ernest's last letter and is in low spirits, refers again to his age, 40 years & lack of being anchored by marriage. Discusses merits of English literature - unsettled by the Times' review of his book, ‘The English Rock Garden’. Describes his relationship with Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox], 25 years, as not intimate just cordially pleasant. When Jumps has left, he is going to rest in Mandalay until February. Speaks of a possible conflagration between the Chinese & aborigines which would close the frontier to further expeditions. ‘In low spirits these days, what with windings up & endings with a crushing sense of my own worthlessness & inadequacy. His book, The Rock Garden, 6 years old, wears its vast erudition (2nd hand) with an affectation of jocosity or preciousness that nowadays would make me feel quite sick. Of Jumps [Euan M. Cox], especially when 40 & 25 have not quite a common ground of breeding, training & traditions.’
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letter dated 10/08/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writes of long descent from Moku-ji, stung by bees- wearying and enjoying relaxing reading his new books and letters he has received. Concerned about Ingleborough and asking if the seeds he sent are growing? The book, Empty House, he has been writing, he intends to send to Ernest Gye, instructing where to get two copies of the manuscript typed, one to be taken to A.S. Watt, agent and other to be read by E. Gye and Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] then sent out to Peking where R. Farrer will amend it further - proposes a timescale for this process. The book is about his last 3 years of travelling. Pleased Jumps is going to start a literary career in London and will have his company.
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