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GB 235 HJH/3/5/6 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Bi-fold Christmas card, with a blank front and back. Adhered to the inside on the right is a colour photograph with a caption written by George Sherriff. Left side has a pre-printed message. Betty Sherriff signed for both of them.

The photograph is in colour and features Rhododendron ludlowii, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Rhododendron

[INSIDE RIGHT]

To you all With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year
[signed] from George + Betty Sherriff

Ascreavie

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/4 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Christmas card, folded in two with a blank front and back. Adhered to the inside on the right is a colour photograph with a caption. Left side has a pre-printed message.

The photograph is in colour and features Primula whitei, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Primula whitei

[INSIDE RIGHT]

To you all With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year
[signed] from George + Betty

Ascreavie, Kirriemuir

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/3 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Christmas card, folded in two. Adhered to the front is a colour photograph with a caption. Inside has a handwritten message, written by George Sherriff.

The photograph is in colour and features Primula odontica, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Primula odontica

[INSIDE RIGHT]

with all good wishes
[signed] from George + Betty Sherriff

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/2 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Two sided Christmas card with colour photograph adhered to the front with a caption. Reverse has printed image of holly & berries along side a pre-printed message.

The photograph is in colour and features Meconopsis integrifolia in front of the house at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]

[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

meconopsis integrifolia
at Ascreavie

[REVERSE]
[PRINTED TEXT]

All Good Wishes for Christmas
and the New Year
from
[signed] George + Betty Sherriff

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/5 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Bi-fold Christmas card, with a blank front and back. Adhered to the inside on the right is a colour photograph with a caption written by George Sherriff. Left side has a pre-printed message. George Sherriff signed for both of them.

The photograph is in colour and features Lilium rubellum, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Lilium rubellum

[INSIDE RIGHT]

With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year
[signed] George + Betty

Ascreavie

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/1 · Item · 1952
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Two sided Christmas card with colour photograph adhered to the front with a caption. Reverse has handwritten message written by George Sherriff.

The photograph is in colour and features Diapensia himalaica, presumably taken by George Sherriff in his garden at Ascreavie.


TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Diapensia himalaica.
Bhutan.

[REVERSE]

With all good wishes.
[signed] George + Betty Sherriff

Ascreavie
Xmas 52 [1952]

Sherriff, George
GB 235 HJH/3/5/13 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

A black and white photograph, mounted on thick board with a metal hood fixed to the top (to hang like an ornament?) and a handwritten message on the back.

Not signed but the message is in Frank Ludlow's handwriting.

The photograph is in black and white and features a yak and a small Tibetan child. Presumably taken by Ludlow in 1936.


TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]
[Photograph]

[REVERSE]

Tibet 1936 [Photograph]
With all good wishes for Xmas
and the New Year

Ludlow, Frank
GB 235 HJH/3/5/12 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Bi-fold Christmas card. Pre-printed card, featuring artwork by Margaret Stone. Handwritten message from Frank Ludlow.


TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]

"HIMALAYAN BLUE PRIMULA"

Primula whitei

This Card, drawn by Margaret Stones, takes with it the wish to help
TIBETAN REFUGEE CHILDREN
to find education & happiness in Dr. Graham's Homes at Kalimpong, Bengal, India

[INSIDE RIGHT]

WITH
BEST WISHES
FROM

[signed] F. Ludlow

[HANDWRITTEN MESSAGE]

One of the loveliest of primulas which you must have
come across in E. Bhutan through possibly not in flower.
Betty Sherriff grows it to perfection in Scotland!
Trust you and the family are well.

Ludlow, Frank
GB 235 HJH/3/5/11 · Item · n.d.
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Printed, black and white, Christmas card on glossy paper. Message on one side only. Features a photograph, presumably taken by Frank Ludlow and a message below with printed image of holly and berries to the right.

The photograph is in black and white and features Namcha Barwa [Namchabarwa] (SE Tibet) at 25445 ft.


TRANSCRIPTION

[Photograph]

NAMCHA BARWA 25445 FT
S.E. TIBET

Merry
Christmas
[SIGNED] F. Ludlow

Ludlow, Frank
GB 235 HJH/3/5/9 · Item · c. 1967-1975
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Bi-fold Christmas card. Pre-printed card, featuring artwork by Margaret Stones. There is a handwritten message written by Betty Sherriff.

Written sometime after the death of her husband in 1967 but before "Quest for Flowers" was published in 1975.

Proceeds for card went to "Tibetan Refugee Children"


TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]

Alas, his [Dr. H.R. Fletcher] L v S [Ludlow and Sherriff] book
has not yet found a publisher but I don't
despair

"Rhododendron wardii"
grown at Ascreavie

[INSIDE RIGHT]

A Happy Christmas
to you all
and With best wishes from
[signed] Betty

This Card, drawn by Margaret Stones,
takes with it the wish to help
TIBETAN REFUGEE CHILDREN
to find education & happiness in Dr. Graham's Homes
at Kalimpong, Bengal, India

Sherriff, Betty