RBGE Archive

Correspondence regarding large quantity of drying paper sent by Smith to Cave, for the further collection of material

GB 235 CAV/1/1/4/18
Item
7/11/1912

Part of George H. Cave Collection

Correspondence from Smith discussing upcoming publishing of work on Primula

GB 235 CAV/1/1/4/19
Item
3/1/1913

Part of George H. Cave Collection

F.R.S. Balfour correspondence, 1930-1935

GB 235 FRS/1/2
Subseries
1930-1935

Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection

FRS/1/2/001-129: 129 letters mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but alsp Gertrude Balfour, John Macqueen Cowan, Foister, William Gibson and John Andrew, dating to between 1930 and 1935.

Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen

Correspondence pertaining to duplicates of Cave's and Ribu and Rumu's collected material, Sent from Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur

GB 235 CAV/1/1/4/2
Item
30/6/1911

Part of George H. Cave Collection

John MacWatt's Account book

GB 235 MCW/2/2
Item
1913-1937

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

Account book (252 x 200 x 22mm) with pasted in or interleaved additions annotated in pen in John MacWatt’s hand, of various dates in the 1920s and 1930s but not in date order. Contents include newspaper and journal cuttings (many from Amateur Gardening, also Popular Gardening, The Garden, Country Life etc); reviews of The Primulas of Europe; an offprint of John MacWatt’s paper to the 1913 Primula Conference and illustrations from the papers of other speakers; letter from William Wright Smith, 8 January 1937, acknowledging the gift to RBGE of 42 lantern slides and 86 negatives of Primulas; Wright Smith’s obituary and other cuttings related to George Forrest; an invitation to a dinner to celebrate Amateur Gardening’s 50th anniversary; prints and postcards from a trip to Shetland in 1935; letter from Lady Haddington and newspaper cuttings regarding the opening of Morelands to the public for charity on 30 August 1932; and loose illustrations from The Primulas of Europe and other publications.

MacWatt, Dr. John

Correspondence pertaining to 'Primula Sections Published'