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•Map of Sikkim and a box containing photographs and negatives (1948-1950) and also a letter to Henry Noltie from D. Jeremy Wood regarding the photos (19 Jul 1995).
7 boxes containing - •Photographic notes (1965-1966) •Trek diaries •Field notes •correspondence •Immigration papers and trekking permits •Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966) •List of publications and papers •Folders of articles •Bowl made from leaves •2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (handle with extreme caution - scabbard has split)
The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.
