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Three boxes of Schoenus Ferrugineus research by Brian S. Brookes
Box 1 contains 2 photos of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, future King of Bhutan inspecting Schoenus ferrugineus with George Sherriff.
Collection seems to focus around a plantation of Schoenus ferrugineus that was growing on the banks of Loch Tummel that was lost by a hydro scheme in the 1940s/1950s? and Brookes's attempts to replant a new population at Loch Tummel in the 1970s.

36 pages of copied seed sowing records made at Ascreavie by David Smith.

•Box containing miscellaneous notes and papers (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing bound Reference Books (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing British Reprints (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Foreign Reprints – ‘A-Q’ (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Foreign Reprints – ‘R-Z’ (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Primula Conference Reports: 1886, 1913 and 1928 (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula Gardener’s Chronicle’ (1928)
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘A-E’
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘F-N’
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘O-Z’
•Box containing miscellaneous photographs
•Box containing a bound collection of photographs with an index
•Box containing miscellaneous photographs – Sherriff reprints by R. Adam and the Royal Horticultural Society. Etc.
•Box containing misc photographs – reprints by R.M. Adam and photos by R. Eudall
Primula/ Ludlow
•Collection of books, papers, reprints, Photographs, etc. on PRIMULA; apparently used, and added to, in succession by I.B. Balfour, W.W. Smith & H.R. Fletcher, is filed in boxes under “Primula” in Main Index
•Papers/reprints include material by I.B. Balfour, W.G. Craib, A Ernst, G. Forrest, R. Farrer, Ludlow & Sherriff (photographs), John MacWatt, W.W. Smith, F. Kingdon Ward, G. Watt, Per Wendelbo, et al.

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

• Diary Materials 1, 1949
• Diary Materials 2, 1949
• Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
• letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
• Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
• small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
• cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
• 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
• newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
• 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow

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

Transcription

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

[REPLY IN INK PEN AT TOP RIGHT CORNER]

Reply
Will come to London to choose x copy?

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

Transcription

BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London

18/7/64

My dear Hicks,

Yours of the 4 July, Sherriff [George Sherriff], I know, has written to you about the photographs. I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan. I have no slides in the Museum. If you will let me know what negatives or transparencies you want, I will send them on of course, the colour transparencies good as they were in 1949, are not up to present-day standards. That cannot be expected. I had a fortnight in Scotland and enjoyed my stay three immensely. I spent 3 days, in Edinburgh working in the Herbarium, which is now housed in a new and magnificent building which the Queen [Elizabeth II] opened a short time ago. Apart from occasional attacks of arthritis Sherriff [George Sherriff] seemed very fit. Betty [Betty Sherriff] too was in fine form, very busy as usual with a multitude of tasks.

Yours,
F. Ludlow

[Letter included a list of photograph negatives that Hicks took in East Bhutan.]

Reply
Will come to London to choose x copy?

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper.

Photograph of a bamboo bridge over water. Two vehicles on one end, people walking over bridge. Major George Sherriff (right) & Betty Sherriff (left) from behind can be seen just in front of the vehicles. Other people can be seen sitting in the vehicles.

Writing on the back.

[TRANSCRIPTION]

A third bridge
26/Mar/49
49.A.6.2

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick grey paper.

Photograph of people walking on a dusty road carrying packs. Hills to the left and in the distance. Leading the group is Major George Sherriff (on foot) and his wife Betty Sherriff (on the horse to the left of G.Sherriff)

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

Entering the hills. Three miles beyond Hatisar [Hatisar F.V, India]
27/Mar/49
49.A.7.1

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper. NOTE: rough dates derived from subject descriptions in Hicks' 'Index of negatives' found in his itinerary (GB235 HJH/4/1)

Photograph of Major George Sherriff demonstrating to locals how to press a plant specimen

Writing on the back.

[TRANSCRIPTION]

First lesson in pressing a specimen

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick grey paper.

Photograph of porters (six in total), with 2 horses further back. By the tree to the left, Betty Sherriff (left) & George Sherriff (right) can be seen on either side.

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

On the way to Kingarapden [Kuenga Rabten]. Halt to press a specimen.
30/Mar/49
49.A.7.3