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Two textbooks - Haller's 'History of the Plants of Switzerland' published in 1769 and Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' published in 1775. Both include some degree of annotation or inscription.

Letter from James Lee, Hammersmith, to Thomas Blaikie, Paris, dated 7 November 1792, outlining concerns regarding payment for materials supplied and requesting assurances be given. Letter has also been annotated by Blaikie regarding payment.

Letter dated 17 February 1821 outlining the issues with Thomas Blaikie's claim for losses and detailing additional paperwork required.

Copy of the Award of Rejection in the claim of Thomas Blaikie, issued by the Commissioners of Liquidation, Arbitration and Award dated 18 July 1821.

Letter from Foreign Office dated 17 August 1825 on behalf of Secretary Canning responding to Thomas Blaikie’s request for intervention on his claim.

This file contains the diary of G. Sherriff from 1940. unbound, 12 lined loose-leaf sheets.

George Sherriff Diary 1949, vol 1.

This file contains the 1949 diary of G. Sherriff. The dairy consists of two bound volumes. Volume 1 contains a number of page markers and some folded paper within the inside cover. The folder paper consist of: an itinerary; a list of seeds from Bhutan; a letter from K. Biswas requesting a photograph of Ludlow and Sherriff as well as details of their expeditions, so that he might include them in his book 'Plants of the Eastern Himalaya'. Volume 2 contains a number of letters interleaved in the back pages of the bound book. These are: a letter from RBGE; a written note; a clipping from the Illustrated London News with colour photographs of 'Aquatics in Kashmir'; a reprint form the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 'Note on Cordyceps from Tibet'.