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Map of Forfar traced on poor quality tracing paper from John Wood’s map of 1822 showing sites pertinent to George Don.

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/14
• File
• 1822 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Bundle of 9 copy letters, transcribed by hand onto 28 pages, from Patrick Neill to James Edward Smith, 1804-1816.

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/15/1-9
• File
• 1804 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Neill, Patrick

Typed transcription – end of a letter? Information about a George Don – most likely to be referring to Patrick Neill Don and his son George Don – letter from A. Anderson, Bedgebury Park, 26.11.1910

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/2
• File
• 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

typed transcription – letter from George A. Don, Bedgebury, Kent, to Mr. Lowson, Forfar, author of Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables, offering information on his grandfather, 11.02.1892

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/3
• File
• 1892 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Typed transcription – letter from B. Daydon Jackson to W.A. Lowson, Forfar about temporary loss of George Don’s letters, 14.05.1892

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/4
• File
• 1892 - 1905

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Typed transcription – 2 pages from Patrick Neill to Conductor of the Farmer’s Magazine with account of George Don and a request for help for his family left impoverished after his death, 20.05.1814

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/5
• File
• 1814 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Typed transcription – 3 pages – Notes for a sketch of the Botanists George [Jr.] and David Don of the Dove Hillock, Forfar, includes an extract of David Don’s birth in the Forfar Parish register, author – Alex. P. Stevenson, Dundee

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/6
• File
• 1900 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Stevenson, Alexander P.

Typed transcription – Notice of George Don from William Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire, 1848 – taken from the introduction

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/7
• File
• 1848 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Typed transcription – Notice of George Don’s life by Patrick Neill contributed to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 15.05.1851 and published in the North British Agriculturist and Henfrey’s Botanical Gazette, 1851

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/8
• File
• 1851 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Typed transcription – letter from David Booth to Sir James Edward Smith, London requesting assistance for Don’s family – from Smith correspondence, Linnaean Society, 24.01.1814

• GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/9
• File
• 1814 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives