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1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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BM (Nat Hist) [British Museum (Natural History)]
Cromwell Road
SW7

10/4/51

Dear Hicks,

Thank you for your letter and the prescription. Is it very kind of you. Drop in again one day when you have the time. There is much to see in the herbarium, but it takes time. I am always there and shall be always pleased to see you at any time.

Yours,
F. Luldow

2 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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British Museum (Nat Hist)
Cromwell Road
SW7

Sept-24 [1952]

Dear Hicks,

Pleased keep the Birds of SE Tibet. I have others you will be interested to see that Codonopsis convolvulacea was exhibited at the RHS [Royal Horticultural Society] show yesterday I received an award of Merit! Gentiana depress an all received an A.M. [Award of Merit] a fortnight ago.

You seem to have had an interesting time in the Welsh hills. I don’t know them at all except distant views of Snowdon [Yr Wyddfa] etc from the Conway. They looked attractive. What a pity it is there is not a 10000’ peak somewhere in Britain!

Come in when you are next in town

Yours
F. Ludlow

3 page letter (2 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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Chorley Wood Hotel
Chorley Wood
Herts.

June 27. 1964

My dear Hicks,

< I have your letter of the 24th about Bhutan photographs of 1949. As it happens[,] I am going to Scotland on Thursday next to stay with the Sherriffs [George Sherriff and Betty Sherriff] and will speak to him on this matter. I don’t think he has any coloured prints of the photographs we took, only the transparencies but if these are what you require I am sure he will loan them to you with pleasure. Since 1949, coloured photography has made enormous strides and correct exposures nowadays are almost foolproof. I am afraid some of our transparencies of 15 years ago suffer by comparison. Still they were not too bad. Would you want just your own coloured transparencies or those that Sherriff and I took as well? Drop me a line about this at the Sherriffs [George Sherriff and Betty Sherriff] address: “Ascreavie, KIRRIEMUIR, ANGUS”. I shall be there until July 13, when I go to Edinburgh to work on the genus Corydalis for a few days. I return here on or about July 21, but leave again in early August for a spell of fishing (sea trout) on the River Taw. I am afraid, therefore, I shall be unable to accept your kind invitation to spend a week end with you this summer. Perhaps next year, if all goes well (I shall then be so) I may do so. I had the misfortune to break my thigh in three places the winter before last, but I made a good recovery, I can now walk 4 or 5 miles a day with ease. I have a good surgeon (J.N. Aston by name) to thank for this.

My very best wishes and I trust you and the family are very fit and well.

Yours sincerely
F. Ludlow

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1 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London

18/7/64

My dear Hicks,

Yours of the 4 July, Sherriff [George Sherriff], I know, has written to you about the photographs. I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan. I have no slides in the Museum. If you will let me know what negatives or transparencies you want, I will send them on of course, the colour transparencies good as they were in 1949, are not up to present-day standards. That cannot be expected. I had a fortnight in Scotland and enjoyed my stay three immensely. I spent 3 days, in Edinburgh working in the Herbarium, which is now housed in a new and magnificent building which the Queen [Elizabeth II] opened a short time ago. Apart from occasional attacks of arthritis Sherriff [George Sherriff] seemed very fit. Betty [Betty Sherriff] too was in fine form, very busy as usual with a multitude of tasks.

Yours,
F. Ludlow

[Letter included a list of photograph negatives that Hicks took in East Bhutan.]

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1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

The letter is undated, but based on the content is believed to have been written c. 1951

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British Museum (Natural History)
Cromwell Road
London SW7

[n.d.]

Dear Hicks,

Thanks for your card. Delighted to hear you are in town. I cannot manage evenings, I fear, as I live out at Rickmansworth, but any day that suits you will suit me at the Museum (Except March 21st and 22nd ) Drop in any day you are free (not Sundays) about noon and we will have lunch somewhere, and talk over old days. I am working out our plants by degrees. You got a lot of very good things in East Bhutan, and your material is absolutely first class.

I was to have gone to Nepal this summer but it fell through owning to political trouble. I am not greatly disappointed. I am getting to old for these treks.

Yours sincerely,
F. Ludlow

The letter, dated 11/11/1947, is from Felix Eugen Frisch (1879-1954), who was Professor of Botany at Queen Mary College, University of London between 1924 and 1948. He is writing in response to a parcel sent to him by Miss Muriel J. Hay, Room 39, Dept. of Botany, RBGE, EH4. She was a student at RBGE and obtained a 2nd class, BSc Hons, Botany in July 1948. He criticises the way she packaged up the slide and tubes of material she wanted him to identify, as the slide was completely broken and one of the tubes was cracked, but he was able to identify one of the specimens as Coelosphaerium naegelianum, and asks her to send more as it would repay detailed study.