Corydalis melanochlora, with [last?] on highest ridges
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/53
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- 12/08/1914
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
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Corydalis melanochlora, with [last?] on highest ridges
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
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Stellera (stems should be stiffer and the plant forms a perfect domed bush), above Siku
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
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letter dated 14/03/1914 from Farrer, Lanchow, to Celia Noble
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Expressing distress at not receiving any letters from Celia. In Thibet, bought some huge copper vats - heirlooms, 12 silk panels, jade for her. Spent winter in Lanchow: describes as charming Chinese capital surrounded by orchards, pagodas and immemorial tombs, so old & tranquil in dazzling blue golden air. ‘I live in fat peace ensconced in a big many-yarded palace while all Europe is a devil's cauldron of blood and fire.’
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Farrer Family Collection - watercolour paintings
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour correspondence, Kansu
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Farrer Correspondence (82 letters in 2 folders) relating to Farrer and Purdom's expedition to Kansu [Gansu] province in north China between 1914 and 1915.
folder 1, letters 1-40 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes (regarding Farrer's irises from China) and George Redman of Farrer's Craven nursery.
folder 2, letters 41-82 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, George Redman, and Edward Arnold, publisher, regarding problems with an appendix to one of Farrer's books.
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Reginald Farrer- photograph album
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Photograph Album donated to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1984 by Miss Gwen Hall, Cumbria. It was bequeathed to her in 1976 by Elsie Purdom, William's sister. There should have been 2 albums but only one was transferred. [It looks as if the other one went to the Lakeland Horticultural Society, and is now at RBGE on permanent loan - RJF/3/1]
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Lilium tenuifolium, Aster kansuensis, Siku
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Reginald Farrer, photograph album 2
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Album 2: 1914-1915, plants from Kansu expedition and some early shots of the Rock Garden at Ingleborough found amongst Reginald's things.
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 1
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Inscription to 'My dear Bill, from RF', 07/02/1917. Photographs by Farrer. Starts in Peking in 1914 and progresses to Mei S'an, Gwang Hui Ssu, Mien Chi Hsien, Hwa S'an, Lin Tung, Satanee, Siku, 'Thundercrown', Jo-ni, then in 1915, Lanchow, Sining, Wei-Yuan, 'Wolvesden Pass', Tien Tang Ssu, Chebson Ssu, 'Creda Rossa' and 'Clear Lake'. Many shots of villages and mountain scenery, including the locations where various plants were found. There are also photographs from Farrer's lone journey south from Lanchow, before he was reunited with Purdom to travel down the Ja-ling-Jang, through the Yangtze Gorges to Ichang.
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letter dated 06/10/1914 from Farrer, Taschow Old City, Kansu to Celia Noble
Parte deReginald Farrer Collection
Description of his time in mountains of Thibet, present of umbrella and food for Chief Mandarin's birthday, go to Badman's land, disguised as coolies at night to collect seed, hide in woods by day and creep back into China. ‘A grey day & a grey heart can only be lightened with the roseate vision of Celia.’
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