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Letter from Lord Elcho to John Hutton Balfour dated 5 November 1853; "Sir, Before leaving Scotland I rec'd your letter and enclosures on the subject of the Palm House in the Royal Botanical Garden - I saw Sir W. Molesworth yesterday and impressed upon him the importance of speedily attending to it and I hope that some steps will be taken to rescue the Palms from the fate that awaits them should nothing be done."

Letter from J.W. Besant, Bees Ltd., Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, RBGE, dated 02 October 1904, advising that they have forwarded several plants raised by them from seeds sent home by ‘our Mr Forrest’ and requesting assistance in identifying these.

Letter from J.W. Besant of The Co-Operative Bees Ltd. Nurseries, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 04 October 1905.
Besant thanks Balfour for his reply to his enquiries about the Chinese plants and points out an error in description of the variety of Cyananthus. Besant gives the names he has received from Kew for the Cyananthus incanus leiocalyx (B.20), Oxyria digyna var. elatior (M.113), Lysimachia dubia (B.31) and Datura stramonium (B.120).
Plants referenced: Cyananthus; Oxyria; Lysimachia; Datura
Letter has been scorched with some loss though not of text.