Letter from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 17 August 1905.
Gorst is directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne 'to state that he has been requested by Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, in the provinces of Yunnan, to inform you that there seems unfortunately little doubt that an Englishman named Forest [sic] was murdered on July 21, in the course of the disturbances which have lately occurred in the region of the Upper Mekong.’...
Letter has been charred with some loss, though not of text.
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GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/L/L131
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1863
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/H/H94
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20/11/1855
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 MCW/1/1
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1911
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
GB 235 MCW/1/2
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1911
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
GB 235 MCW/1/3
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1912
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/L/L133
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1863
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/G/G61
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16/07/1867
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/A/A31
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1844
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/L/L173
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03/12/1864
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/24
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17/08/1905
Part of George Forrest Collection