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•1 box donated via the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sibbald Trust containing original letters c.1783 (RBGEA2023/014) and a folder of B.L. Burtt's papers and correspondence used in his contribution to A.G. Morton's book. •1 box containing I.B. Balfour’s scrap book, memoirs and other assorted items •1 box containing indices to NAS papers and various photocopies of correspondence, etc. •12 boxes containing copies of SRO Papers marked:
GD253/143/1-4
GD253/143/5-6
GD253/143/7-9
GD253/143/10-13
GD253/144/1-4
GD253/144/5-7
GD253/144/8-10
GD253/144/11-14
GD253/145/1-6
GD253/145/7-10
GD253/145/10-13
GD253/145/4 •Box of index cards referring to John Hope There is a detailed list stored with the following boxes containing photocopies of papers from the SRO which notes what is inside each box and what the references refer to. Documents include correspondence, bills, receipts and other financial accounts • E215/3-6, 1769-1829 • E414/1-7, 1764. 1769, 1789, 1825 • E414/8, 1767, 1770, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782 • E414/9-11, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1789 • E414/12-15, 1789, 1790, 1792 • E414/16-18, 1793, 1794, 1795 • E414/19-22, 1788, 1789, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799 • E414/23-25, 1797, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 • E414/26, 1803 • E414/27, 1801, 1803, 1804 • E414/28, 1804, 1805, 1806 • E414/32, 1899, 1800, 1801, 1803 • E414/33-40, 1769, 1776 • E414/41-46, 1777, 1778 • E414/47, 1782 • E414/48, 1783 • E414/49, 1785, 1784 • E414/50, 1787 • E414/51, 1789, 1788 • E414/52, 1789 • E414/53, 1790 • E414/54 ,1791 • E414/55, 1792 • E414/56, 1793 • E414/57, 1794 • E414/58, 1795 • E414/59, 1796 • E414/57, 1794 • E414/58, 1795 • E414/59, 1796 • E414/60, 1797 • E414/61, 1798, 1797 • E414/62, 1799 • E414/63, 1800 • E414/64, 1801 • E414/65 ,1802
exhibition catalogue: John Hope; Enlightened Botanist written by Henry Noltie and relating to exhibition at Inverleith House, May to July 2011
1 book containing signatures of visitors to the Logan House gardens between 1949 and 1967. Signatures include many significant figures in the horticultural world- Euan and Peter Cox, Vita Sackville-West using her married name of Nicolson, Cicely M. Crewdson, George Taylor, numerous landowners, members of RBGE staff and, in 1955, HRH, Elizabeth R.
Logan Botanic Gardens, Stranraer, Wigtownshire •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Acquisition’ •1 box of papers marked ‘Deed of Gift from Trustees’ Logan Gardens Trust •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence (1965-67) •1 file containing miscellaneous correspondence and minutes of the trustees meetings (1961-63) •2 different rough drafts of ‘A Guide to the Gardens’ (Logan Gardens) Logan House •2 boxes of papers marked ‘Sale to Sir Ninian Buchan-Hepburn’ London, Royal Botanic Society •Regulations and lists of members (1877)
• Original transcript of George Gardner's "Brazilian plants, 1836-41". 3 copies of transcription made, 2 for J. A. Ratter (donor) & 1 to be bound for Library shelves RBGEA2006.08
•Signatures of Carl von Linné and Carolus a Linné (Linnæus the younger) filed with the collection of Signature under “S” in general alphabetical category
• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832 •Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)