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Poem, written in green ink on handmade paper and inserted into a folded card with ‘a contemplation’ on it. One one side of the paper is ‘Written by Katheryn’s bench by the southern border of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh on the afternoon of the second day of 2025. John Robertson

Together, a while

If all that remains of me
is a place for others to rest,
a place for others to think,
and to connect
and to see
and to be.

Then put my life down
to the simple achievement
of a humble wooden bench
with a quiet brass plaque,
and on it shall be written:
‘let us dance together, a while’
set away somewhere gentle
at Edinburgh’s Botanical Ceilidh.

John R. 02.01.2025

Manuscript titled 'Localities for New or Rare Mosses in Scotland'.
The names Alexander McKinlay, James Stirton and John Shaw are mentioned as collectors in the manuscript, alongside three dates, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Although not definite, the handwriting in the documents compares very favourably to that of James Hardy (1815-1898), Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club and compiling a work on Mosses of Berwickshire at the end of the 1860s.

•Menu and invitation to the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Bicentenary celebrations (2009)

•Letter to W.H. Campbell from Rutherford (8 January 1840)

•Notes on his Rocky Mountain and Appalachian Expeditions (1933-1937)

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.

Small collection of papers dating to 1969-1970 that reference John McLaren and the centenary celebrations of the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, filed under “San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Centenary”

•Copy of the Scrapbook of Robert Scarlett, containing mostly newspaper articles (1909-1953)

7 boxes containing -
•Photographic notes (1965-1966)
•Trek diaries
•Field notes
•correspondence
•Immigration papers and trekking permits
•Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966)
•List of publications and papers
•Folders of articles
•Bowl made from leaves
•2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (access restrictions apply - the scabbards are in poor condition, and in one case has split, making the knives extremely dangerous to handle)