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one map used in Forrest's article describing the geography and people of the Upper Salween during his visit there with Consul George Litton in late 1905. The article was published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1908 with this accompanying map, and again by the National Geographical Society in 1910.

Letter from Arthur Kilpin Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, RBGE, dated 25 June 1905.
Bulley writes to report that many of Forrest’s seeds and those of Pere Monbeig have germinated already, including ‘a very pretty little Convolvulus in various colours, which surely must be a Chinese Garden Escape, but wh. is to my thinking much prettier than any annual Convolvulus I know of here …’ Though unwilling to interfere in the matter of Forrest and Miss Traill, he has written to Mrs Traill expressing his high opinion of Forrest, continuing that 'A man sh' win his wife by himself' but he would find work for Miss Traill in his nursery if she ‘is being unendurably persecuted ..’ Bulley offers to send Balfour plants for identification and mentions that he is about to visit Cork-Waterford to look for ideal conditions for raising plants.
Plants referenced: Convolvulus; Cypripedium

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, to Arthur Kilpin Bulley [Ness, Neston, Cheshire] dated 28 June 1905.
'...I should much like to take in hand identifications of the new things you raise. I shall be working up his dried plants and of course anything you may send will be held in trust by us as are the dried specimens from him. He will, I am sure, do great things for you. His last letter to me glowed with enthusiasm in the prospect of his northern migration.
'Mrs Traill is I am afraid rather foolish, and should have learned by now that no other reply than that you have given is possible from those who know Forrest. I do not think Miss Traill is now so unhappy – the subject is become ‘taboo’ at home.” Hopes that Bulley’s kind offer of work for Miss Traill will not be necessary.
‘If you can carry out your proposal, and have all these nurseries controlled from one centre, you will have made a great stride towards securing uniformity in garden names and safeguarding plant lovers from their present tax in buying over again one plant under a variety of names...’
Copy has been made by Balfour's assistant Henry Hastings.
Letter has been scorched with some loss, but not of text.

Letter from the Co-operative Bees Ltd. Nurseries (J.H.), Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Edinboro' Botanic Garden, dated 06 July 1905.
Letter accompanying plants sent for identification by 'our collector, G. Forrest', including convolvulus.
Plants referenced: Convolvulus
Letter has been scorched with some loss (though not text)

Account book (252 x 200 x 22mm) with pasted in or interleaved additions annotated in pen in John MacWatt’s hand, of various dates in the 1920s and 1930s but not in date order. Contents include newspaper and journal cuttings (many from Amateur Gardening, also Popular Gardening, The Garden, Country Life etc); reviews of The Primulas of Europe; an offprint of John MacWatt’s paper to the 1913 Primula Conference and illustrations from the papers of other speakers; letter from William Wright Smith, 8 January 1937, acknowledging the gift to RBGE of 42 lantern slides and 86 negatives of Primulas; Wright Smith’s obituary and other cuttings related to George Forrest; an invitation to a dinner to celebrate Amateur Gardening’s 50th anniversary; prints and postcards from a trip to Shetland in 1935; letter from Lady Haddington and newspaper cuttings regarding the opening of Morelands to the public for charity on 30 August 1932; and loose illustrations from The Primulas of Europe and other publications.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Bees & Co. Ltd., Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 19 July 1905.
Balfour provides Bees with identifications of 5 plants, expressing his view that Forrest must have been collecting in some Chinese Garden... 'the anomalous source of the four plants has been rather perplexing'.
Plants referenced: Geum; Ipomaea; Moltkia; Oenothera; Verbascum
Letter is slightly charred.

Letter from the Co-operative Bees Ltd. Nurseries (E.H.?), Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24(?) July 1905.
Bees Ltd write to acknowledge receipt of Balfour's letter identifying plants and seeks his opinion on a plant received under the name of Geum virginianum. Sending fresh specimen of Geum and also of a species of Verbascum raised from seeds received from M. [Walter] Siehe.
Plants referenced: Geum; Verbascum
Letter slightly charred with slight loss, though not text.

Letter from George Litton, H.M. Consulate, Tengyueh, via Bhamo, Burma, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 15 August 1905.
Litton writes to inform Balfour of the murder of George Forrest at Tsekou as a result of attack by Tibetan lamas on 20 July. He will do all in his power to secure an inquiry.
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.

Letter from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 17 August 1905.
Gorst is directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne 'to state that he has been requested by Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, in the provinces of Yunnan, to inform you that there seems unfortunately little doubt that an Englishman named Forest [sic] was murdered on July 21, in the course of the disturbances which have lately occurred in the region of the Upper Mekong.’...
Letter has been charred with some loss, though not of text.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 17 August 1905.
Balfour writes to express his grief at the death of George Forrest and regret at the loss of ‘a born collector’. ... 'We have lost a really good man from whom I had looked for great horticultural prizes.'