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Telegram from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, handed in at Whitehall, To A.K. Bulley, received at Neston, Cheshire on the 21 August 1905: 'Latest information states that Forrest has arrived safe at Weishi [sic] and was to have been sent under escort on the 14th inst. to Tali [Dali] Gorst' with annotations by A.K. Bulley: 'I don't know whether you have had this, Just return it, A.K.B.'

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 21 August 1905.
Balfour writes to Bulley to forward communications from the Foreign Office. Balfour adds that ‘Forrest is a capital letter-writer and his next one should be full of thrilling details.’
Balfour urges Bulley to remember that Forrest’s work is ‘exploration contributing to scientific knowledge and that the life he is leading is that which he longed for, he revels in it, and we could not have realised his wish for it but for your enterprising kindness in employing him.’
Letter has been scorched.

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 21 August 1905.
Forrest's sister writes to thank Balfour for his sympathy and support during the time when they thought George Forrest was dead; she is gratified that Forrest is so highly regarded by Balfour. She has just received Forrest’s letter of 19 June reporting a rumour that the lamas had fled from Atuntze.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 22 August 1905.
Balfour writes to forward further communication from the Foreign Office to A.K. Bulley.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Sir Eldon Gorst, K.C.B., The Foreign Office, Downing Street, London, dated 22 August 1905.
Balfour writes to thank Gorst for his telegram [GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/28], the terms of which he has communicated to Forrest's family.
Letter has been scorched with some loss; there is also some staining which has adhered a fold in the paper

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, Springbank, Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24 August 1905.
Forrest's sister writes to acknowledge Balfour's letter and looks forward to further news.
Letter is charred with minor loss.

Letter from George Forrest, Talifu, Yunnan, S.W. China, to Isaac Bayley Balfour M.D., 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, dated 29 August 1905.
Forrest writes: 'At last I have reached Tali [Dali] in safety. I have just passed through the worst experience of my life and I sincerely hope I will never be called upon to suffer the like again.’
Forrest gives a brief report of the attack on the Tsekou mission on 19 July, his escape with two of the mission fathers, the hunting down, capture and brutal murder of the two missionaries, Pere Dubernard and Pere Bourdonnec and his own subsequent experience of being hunted by lamas for seven or eight days on the ridges of the Mekong / Salween divide. Forrest laments the loss of everything, his specimens, photographs, equipment, money and papers: ‘Worst of all I have lost the greater part of the season and this grieves me more than anything. After all my recent success apparently I am to end in failure …At times I feel that it would almost have been better had I been killed …I will have to start all over again. As soon as I regain my strength I shall recommence work on the Tsan Shan range west of here and do my best to make up for lost time. I dare not go north this year but if Mr Bulley is agreeable shall do so next spring.’
Forrest describes in a postscript the varieties of meconopsis and primula which he saw during his journey south down the heart of the range. ‘I would almost go through the same again to procure even dried specimens of them.’
Plants referenced: Meconopsis; Primula
Letter is slightly scorched with minimal loss. This letter has examples of acidic ink eating through the paper.

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 04 September 1905.
Forrest's sister writes to Balfour to report the receipt of two letters from Forrest dated 4 and 13 July from Tsekou. She thanks Balfour for letting the Forrest family see Bulley’s letter.
Letter has some minor scorch damage.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Arthur Kilpin Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 05 September 1905.
Balfour writes to Bulley to discuss the difficulty of naming plants sent by Forrest, as not all plants from the Chinese flora have been previously identified, including those in collections made by Wilson, Henry, Soulie, Ducloux and others. Balfour sends photographs of mounted specimens and requests approval for a proposed style of label.
Plants referenced: Gentian; Primulaceae; Ranunculaceae.
Letter has some minor scorch damage.

Postcard from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 06 September 1905.
Bulley writes a short to Balfour on a postcard approving the photographs and regretting that they are unlikely to get seeds of the Tsekou plants unless Forrest got them on his first trip there. Bulley requests that the label printed for Forrest's herbarium collections simply says ‘collected by George Forrest’, removing his own name from it.