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Accounts, Invoices, and Statements relating to Friends of Hopetoun Crescent Garden and the Heritage Lottery Fund's involvement in the RBGE Botanic Cottage Project

This is a set of ledgers and notebooks that document seed and live plant material being sent to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, who donated them, where from and when.

Seed Donation Ledger with 'Seeds 1823-1824' on the spine which dates from 1823 to 1826 and documents donations of plants coded FO-IT from around Britain and the World. There is a chronological index at the back.

Seed Donation Ledger with 'Seeds Received 1838-1844' on the spine which dates from 1838 to 1844 and documents donations of plants coded RM-XC from around Britain and the World. There is no index.
The ledger has been rebound in red buckram.

Seed Donation Notebook with 'Seeds received Jan'y 1863 to 1868' on the cover which dates from 1863 to 1867 and documents donations of plants from around Britain and the World. There is no index and the notebook seems to be a more informal version of the Seed Donation Ledgers; similar to ones seen in the Plant Donations Subseries; it may have belonged to John Hutton Balfour or James McNab, but has a number of different examples of handwriting inside.
There are a number of inserts including a pressed plant, a note from Dr Hugh Cleghorn and a letter from Jessie / Janet Mann to Hutton Balfour [at page 25-26] dated 28 March 1863 when she was a House Mistress of Campie House School in Musselburgh where she describes some seeds from Mrs Mockler that she is sending to Balfour. She goes on to say that Master Isaac [Bayley Balfour] is quite well and expecting a visit from one of his sisters. Jessie Mann is credited with being Scotland's first female photographer when she worked with David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.

RBGE Plants and Seeds Despatch Ledger with 'Plants and Seeds Sent Out I' on the spine; the ledger lists plants sent to various locations around Britain and the World between March 1899 and March 1912. There is an index, arranged alphabetically, at the front. The spine is damaged and there are a number of loose inserts inside the ledger; handle with care.

RBGE Plants and Seeds Despatch Ledger with 'Despatch Book Propagating Dept. written inside; the ledger lists plants sent to various locations around Britain and the World between October 1916 and February 1920. There is an index, arranged alphabetically, at the front.