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1 watercolour painting of a mountainous background.

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Snow peaks & Kanchenjunga

1 watercolour painting of a mountainous background, trees in the foreground

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Kanchenjunga
March 1949

1 watercolour painting of a hilly valley, with buildings, including Byakar Dzong [Jakar Dzong]. Mountains in the distance

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Byakar Dzong [Jakar Dzong]
Apr. 12th 1949

1 watercolour painting of specimen no. 20148 [plant unknown]. Two different parts of the same plant.

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Specimen No. 20148
Apr. 21st 1949

1 watercolour painting of a view of Lao, Bhutan.

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Lao
May/49

1 watercolour painting of a view of Shingbe, Bhutan. Tents in the foreground, forest and mountains in the background.

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Shingbe
June, 1949

This collection consists of material created and gathered from the expeditions of George Sherriff in Bhutan and Tibet during 1933-1949.

The collection consists of 5 sub-series: diaries, correspondence, expedition material, visual material, and plant collection documentation.

[1] Diaries: This series consists of the original diaries of George Sherriff during his expeditions.

[2] Correspondence: This series consists of a variety of correspondence from and to George Sherriff.

[3] Expedition Material: This series consists of a variety of expedition documents ranging from itineraries and maps to administration lists and passports.

[4] Visual Material: This series consists of a variety of material including: photographic material, films and videos. Photographic material ranges from prints and negatives taken by Sherriff and Ludlow to prints of digital images taken as exhibition documentation in 2014. The films are..... There have been dvd surrogates made of the films to ensure continued accessibility.

[5] Plant Collection Documentation: This series consists of a variety of material which includes plant and seed lists from their expedition with a large focus on Primula, Meconopsis and Rhododendrons, as well as publications gathered by Ludlow and Sherriff which cover their shared interest in the Himalayan region and it's flora and fauna. There is also a garden register donated by the Knox Finlay family detailing the progress of plants/seeds in their gardens acquired from various expeditions including Ludlow and Sherriff's between 1951-52.

1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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BM (Nat Hist) [British Museum (Natural History)]
Cromwell Road
SW7

10/4/51

Dear Hicks,

Thank you for your letter and the prescription. Is it very kind of you. Drop in again one day when you have the time. There is much to see in the herbarium, but it takes time. I am always there and shall be always pleased to see you at any time.

Yours,
F. Luldow

2 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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British Museum (Nat Hist)
Cromwell Road
SW7

Sept-24 [1952]

Dear Hicks,

Pleased keep the Birds of SE Tibet. I have others you will be interested to see that Codonopsis convolvulacea was exhibited at the RHS [Royal Horticultural Society] show yesterday I received an award of Merit! Gentiana depress an all received an A.M. [Award of Merit] a fortnight ago.

You seem to have had an interesting time in the Welsh hills. I don’t know them at all except distant views of Snowdon [Yr Wyddfa] etc from the Conway. They looked attractive. What a pity it is there is not a 10000’ peak somewhere in Britain!

Come in when you are next in town

Yours
F. Ludlow

3 page letter (2 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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Chorley Wood Hotel
Chorley Wood
Herts.

June 27. 1964

My dear Hicks,

< I have your letter of the 24th about Bhutan photographs of 1949. As it happens[,] I am going to Scotland on Thursday next to stay with the Sherriffs [George Sherriff and Betty Sherriff] and will speak to him on this matter. I don’t think he has any coloured prints of the photographs we took, only the transparencies but if these are what you require I am sure he will loan them to you with pleasure. Since 1949, coloured photography has made enormous strides and correct exposures nowadays are almost foolproof. I am afraid some of our transparencies of 15 years ago suffer by comparison. Still they were not too bad. Would you want just your own coloured transparencies or those that Sherriff and I took as well? Drop me a line about this at the Sherriffs [George Sherriff and Betty Sherriff] address: “Ascreavie, KIRRIEMUIR, ANGUS”. I shall be there until July 13, when I go to Edinburgh to work on the genus Corydalis for a few days. I return here on or about July 21, but leave again in early August for a spell of fishing (sea trout) on the River Taw. I am afraid, therefore, I shall be unable to accept your kind invitation to spend a week end with you this summer. Perhaps next year, if all goes well (I shall then be so) I may do so. I had the misfortune to break my thigh in three places the winter before last, but I made a good recovery, I can now walk 4 or 5 miles a day with ease. I have a good surgeon (J.N. Aston by name) to thank for this.

My very best wishes and I trust you and the family are very fit and well.

Yours sincerely
F. Ludlow

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