Primula brachystoma, F1635, 2m from camp
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/25
- Item
- 06/08/1920
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Primula brachystoma, F1635, 2m from camp
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Rhododendron species, Camp Moku-ji
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Rhododendron mallotum, Chaw-ji Camp
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
letter dated 18/04/1920 from Farrer, P.O. Myitkyina, Ridam Ferry, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Describes the rain, 4 days of forested mountain passes, then needing to cross a raging torrent on a bamboo raft. He, his pony and goods safely crossed to a dry shelter. The mules of his procession fled at the sight of the river crossing, hopes the treacherous mulemen in the forests suffering with leeches & ticks. ‘After miraculous paddlings, inshore among the boulders all a-blossom with scarlet Azaleas.’
Farrer, Reginald John
Farrer written material, box 5; Burma expedition with Euan Cox
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box 5: 1919-1920; includes correspondence to family and Aubrey Herbert, 1919 - includes references to Frank Kingdon Ward and George Forrest; telegrams from RJF to his mother, 1919; correspondence to family, 1920; letter from Farrer to Sir Francis Younghusband, 13/09/1920; correspondence from Isaac Bayley Balfour and William Wright Smith of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to Farrer and family, 1917-1924; general correspondence, 1920, correspondents include Lionel de Rothschild, Postmaster Gye? J.T.O. Barnard, and William Purdom; folder of ephemera including telegram, ticket to Rangoon, diary entry and Burmese travelling times and Regulations for dealing with tribes; copy of Gardener's Chronicle including article by Farrer, 1921-22; notes written by Farrer's mother regarding instructions and dispatches from Farrer; plant / seed lists, including identifications from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Farrer's supply lists; information relating to E.H.M. Cox, including, copies of few diary pages, maps and letters from Farrer to Cox; and various maps of various dates relating to Farrer's collecting localities.
Farrer Family
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
1 tube containing 2 certificates: Gill Memorial, May 1920, from the Royal Geographical Society; and South Kent Liberal Association, certificate of condolence after Ashford election, 1910.
Farrer Family
letter dated 10/08/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writes of long descent from Moku-ji, stung by bees- wearying and enjoying relaxing reading his new books and letters he has received. Concerned about Ingleborough and asking if the seeds he sent are growing? The book, Empty House, he has been writing, he intends to send to Ernest Gye, instructing where to get two copies of the manuscript typed, one to be taken to A.S. Watt, agent and other to be read by E. Gye and Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] then sent out to Peking where R. Farrer will amend it further - proposes a timescale for this process. The book is about his last 3 years of travelling. Pleased Jumps is going to start a literary career in London and will have his company.
Farrer, Reginald John
Rhodoleia championi, Hook, F1533, Nyitadi
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection