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Green vellum file, annotated ‘Claims upon the French Government by Thos. Blaikie’, containing 17 handwritten letters and notes by and to Blaikie, mainly in relation to losses incurred during the French Revolution. These include correspondence with the Office of Commissioners for Claims on France, James Lee at the Hammersmith nursery and the Foreign Office. The papers date from 1791 to 1890. (Box 1)

Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure. Source: British Museum collection, where additional copies are held. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308021&partId=1&searchText=Balma&page=1
(Box 3)

Brief introduction, detailing Cave's early biography as well as information on the geography, culture, and people of Sikkim. Transcription of 1906 Diary is main body of text, followed by glossary of terms and final notes.

Routes taken by William Wright Smith and G.H. Cave in 1909 and 1910. Map draw on in pencil. Originally published by Surveyor General of India, May 1906.

Descriptive information relating to the castes or tribes of Nepal, 1910. Information presented as a spreadsheet with the headings, 'Caste', 'Language', 'Religion', and 'Remarks'.

There are a few corrections in blue ink to the names and spellings of certain indigenous groups.

Published - A. Earle. Deputy Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner's Office, Darjeeling, 24th July, 1900.

Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939

Papers connected to the Landowners’ Co-operative Forestry Society, Ltd.: List No.1 – F.R.S. Balfour’s surplus plant list from nurseries at Dawyck, 1928.

Letter from George Forrest to Isaac Bayley Balfour dated 17 August 1903, asking if there has been ‘something definite regarding the situation we spoke of when I called on you’.