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Letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Sir E. Gorst, The Foreign Office, Downing Street, London S.W. dated 18 August 1905.
Balfour, unaware at this point that Forrest has survived, writes to acknowledge Gorst's letter of 17 August and asks that Forrest’s mother or himself be informed of result of enquiry into Forrest’s death.
Letter is fire damaged with some loss.

Telegram from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, handed in at Parliament Street at 5:18pm, to Professor Balfour, Keeper of the Royal Gardens, Edinburgh, received at Goldenacre Post Office at 5:55p on 19 August 1905.
'Further telegram received from Consul Gunnan [sic - Yunnan] stating Forrest is alive and safe. Gorst.'

Telegram from Traill; presumably Miss Clementina Traill, Forrest's fiancee, handed in at Portobello Post Office at 8:25pm, to Balfour, Inverleith House, received by Edinburgh Office at 8:28pm, 19 August 1905.
'Many thanks for kindness letting me know good news. Traill.'

Telegram from Forrest family, likely Miss Grace R. Forrest, George's sister, handed in at Lasswade Post Office at 8:17pm, to Balfour, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, received at Edinburgh Office at 8:21pm[?], 19 August 1905.
'Overjoyed to have good news many many thanks'

Letter from George Litton, H.M. Consul at Tengyueh, via Bhama, to Isaac Bayley Balfour [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh], dated 19 August 1905.
Litton writes to confirm that George Forrest is safe in the Chinese camp at Wei Hsi: 'Dear Sir, I write a line to confirm the news wh you will already have heard that Forrest by some miracle has escaped. We have definite news of him today, safe on the 13th in the Chines camp at Wei Hsi ‘…after horrible experiences’. Thank God for that. You will not think that I wrote the news of his death without good reason. It was confirmed from numerous official and unofficial sources and there were supposed to have been eye witnesses! I am more pleased than I can say. I expect he will have a wondrous tale to tell.'
Letter has been damaged by fire with some loss, though not of text.

Letter from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh] dated 19 August 1905.
Bulley writes to confirm he has just received the news of Forrest’s death and he feels sick that Forrest lost his life ‘in the endeavour to earn my beastly money’. Bulley encloses Forrest’s last letter and asks that it be passed to Miss Traill and the Forrest family.
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.

Typed copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, [RBGE], to A.K. Bulley [Ness, Neston, Cheshire] dated 19 August 1905.
Balfour writes briefly to let Bulley know that Forrest is alive and safe.
Letter has been scorched with some loss, but not of text.

Postcard from Arthur Kilpin Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 20 August 1905.
Bulley reacts to hearing that Forrest is alive and safe:
Hurrah! Hurrah! Glorious news. Thank you immensely for communicating with me so speedily. I have spent a miserable weekend.

Typed copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, [Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh], to Sir Eldon Gorst, K.C.B., The Foreign Office, Downing Street, London S.W. dated 19 August 1905.
Balfour writes to acknowledge with thanks and joy the receipt of Gorst’s telegram. (GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/28) 'I am glad to think that a career which promised so much of value to science has not been prematurely closed, as seemed probable.'
Letter is on fragile paper and has been scorched with some loss.

Copy letter from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 21 August 1905.
Gorst writes at the request of the Marquess of Lansdowne to report the official news that Forrest arrived in Wei Hsi on 13 August and would be escorted to Tali [Dali] on 14 August.
Letter has been burned with some loss.