Mostrar 4635 resultados

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.

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 08 September 1905.
Grace writes to Balfour to return Bulley's letters.

Letter from George Forrest, China Inland Mission, Talifu [Dali], to Isaac Bayley Balfour, 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 11 September 1905.
Forrest writes to say that having recovered his strength he has decided to join Mr. Litton on a journey to the Salween-Irrawadi [Irrawaddy] Divide. He hopes to push as far north as 28 degrees, directly west of Tsekou - 'however there is no danger of our being disturbed by llamas [sic] as the valleys are wholly populated by Shans and Lissoos'. Forrest hopes to send many new things, but as the season is so far advanced, Forrest's mode of collecting seeds 'is bound to be what Mr. Bulley terms 'hocus pocus' i.e. gathering the seed without having seen the plant in flower wherever I go, so the best I can do is to get on to really new ground.'
Letter has been scorched with a little loss.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 20 September 1905.
Balfour promises to send copies of all the photographs relating to Forrest plants that RBGE produce. Balfour is finding it difficult to identify the rhododendrons sent by Forrest from descriptions only but hopes that Dr Henry [of the Paris Herbarium?] will be able to assist. ‘I have one twig from Forrest of a veritable “blue” Rhododendron. I hope you have seed of it.' Balfour states that he wishes Bulley would allow his name to appear on the herbarium labels as he is the sponsor of the collection. He reports receiving letters from Litton amplifying the news already received via telegram; they are with Forrest's family but Balfour will send them to Bulley when he can.
Letter has been scorched with some loss, there is also some water damage.

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24 September 1905.
Grace writes to Balfour returning letters that had been passed to her by Miss Traill. 'The news contained in the first one is terrible, and it is only the knowledge that he has escaped that enables us even now to read it without great heartbreak.'

Postcard from A.K. Bulley, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, The Regius Keeper, Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 24 September 1905.
Bulley writes to advise Balfour that he does not expect to receive any seeds of the plants from Tsekou this year, blue rhododendrons included.