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Three vellum bound notebooks covering the period 1775-1822.

Box 1: 1880-1902; includes Farrer's birth announcement and certificates and four folders of correspondence, mainly to his mother from Ingleborough, Newnham Rectory, Balliol College, Scarborough and Europe.

Correspondence, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith

Correspondence, including some plant determinations and receipts from:
Dr. G. Claridge Druce - 12 letters
William Wright Smith - 5 letters including Hayward's obituary for the Linnean Society, published in 1950
Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - 3 determinations/receipts
Arthur W. Hill, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - 2 determinations/receipts
E.W. Marquand - 2 letters
A. Bruce Jackson, Kew - 3 letters
Charles Lapworth - 3 letters regarding the British Association
A. Thellung, Zurich - one letter in French
William Watson[?] - one list of determinations
Clement Reid - 3 letters found in a copy of a book presented by him to Miss Hayward

This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.

Album 1: 1900-1908; includes Japan, 1902; China, 1903[?]; Ceylon, 1908; Japan, 1903 [photos by Gertrude Bell]; Canada, 1900 and St. Marten Lantosque Vesubie, 1902.

Inscription to 'My dear Bill, from RF', 07/02/1917. Photographs by Farrer. Starts in Peking in 1914 and progresses to Mei S'an, Gwang Hui Ssu, Mien Chi Hsien, Hwa S'an, Lin Tung, Satanee, Siku, 'Thundercrown', Jo-ni, then in 1915, Lanchow, Sining, Wei-Yuan, 'Wolvesden Pass', Tien Tang Ssu, Chebson Ssu, 'Creda Rossa' and 'Clear Lake'. Many shots of villages and mountain scenery, including the locations where various plants were found. There are also photographs from Farrer's lone journey south from Lanchow, before he was reunited with Purdom to travel down the Ja-ling-Jang, through the Yangtze Gorges to Ichang.