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Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 6; Cho-ni to Radja [Ra-gya] and Jupar [Gyu-par], 1926 entitled ‘Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Director Arnold Arboretum Harvard Expedition, Vol. VI. Journey from Choni to Labrang and west to the Yellow River at Radja and beyond to the Amnyi Machen from April 23rd to August 20th 1926’ [see also Volume 20 - there are similar dates here]
Includes Rock’s hand drawn maps of the area and loose note

Joseph F.C. Rock’s annotated transcript of his diary volume 6, 1926: Cho-ni to Radja [Ra-gya] and Jupar [Gyu-par].
Journey from Cho-ni to Labrang and west to the Yellow River at Radja and beyond to the Amnye-Machhen. Director Arnold Arboretum, Harvard Expedition from April 23, 1926 to August 20, 1926, Volume 6 [VI]

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 9 [10 on spine]; Yunnanfu to Mu-li, Konka-ling, 1927-1928 entitled Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Director National Geographic Society Expedition, Volume VIIII, IX, from Dec. 31st 1927 to June 17th 1928.
Contains loose notes/indices.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 10 [11 on spine]; Konka-ling to Li-chiang, 1928 entitled 'My journey to Mt Konka (Konkaling) from Muli, S.W. Szechuan. Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Sunday June 18th 1928 to October 24th 1928. Vol.X.'

Partial transcript of Joseph F.C. Rock’s diary volume 11 [12 on spine], pp.190-298
The transcript is unannotated, but spaces have been left for Rock to make additions.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 16; Yunnanfu to Lichiang A-ts’an-gko, 1931 entitled 'Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Vol. XVI, from January 1st 1931 to May 1st 1931'
The diary contains a pressed flower and a loose photograph of Joseph Rock taken by Edgar Snow in 1930.
There are maps drawn on some of the pages.
The diary contains information about Naxi pictograms.

Letter from Robert Aitken, Arbroath, to John Hutton Balfour dated 14th June 1878. Aitken thanks Balfour for his letter sent to Madasgascar in December which has been redirected to him in Arbroath. He hopes to visit Balfour in Edinburgh to get information about plants that Balfour wants from Madasgascar.