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Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 02 October 1905.
Grace writes to express relief at confirmation of her brother’s safety but fears for his state of health.
Letter has been scorched with some loss, but not of text.

Memorandum from A.K. Bulley on S. Marshall Bulley and Son Memorandum notepaper, to Isaac Bayley Balfour at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 02 October 1905, describing the communication of 17 August from Mr Embery, China Inland Mission, Talifu [Dali] [GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/26]; that Forrest was expected there in four days and would be well cared for. ‘The 1st “nice” plant fr[om] F[orrest] has just been determined at Kew – Cyananthus incanus var. leiocalyx. Yellow fl[ower]s. In Robinson’s Eng[lish] Fl[ower] Garden C. incanus is described as having light blue fl[ower]s.’
Plants referenced: Cyananthus incanus var leiocalyx
The memo is slightly charred.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Messrs the Co-Operative Bees, Ltd., Ness, Neston, Cheshire, dated 03 October 1905.
Balfour writes with identifications of five plants sent by George Forrest: M.18 – Malva verticillata, Linn; M.113 – Oxyria Digyna, Hill; F.B.20 Cyananthus; F.B.120 Datura stramonium, Linn; F.B.31 Lysimachia; Balfour believes the cyananthus deserves a special name but hopes to settle its identification during a visit to Paris in December.
Plants referenced:

• M.18 – Malva verticillata, Linn;
• M.113 – Oxyria Digyna, Hill;
• F.B.20 Cyananthus;
• F.B.120 - Datura stramonium, Linn;
• F.B.31 Lysimachia

The letter is slightly charred.

Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Arthur Kilpin Bulley Esq., 8A Rumford Place, Liverpool, dated 04 October 1905.
Balfour writes to acknowledge Bulley's previous letter and to discuss his identification of the Cyananthus sent by Forrest; Balfour's opinion is that revision of the nomenclature will ultimately be necessary.
Plant referenced: Cyananthus
Letter is slightly charred.

Letter from J.W. Besant of The Co-Operative Bees Ltd. Nurseries, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 04 October 1905.
Besant thanks Balfour for his reply to his enquiries about the Chinese plants and points out an error in description of the variety of Cyananthus. Besant gives the names he has received from Kew for the Cyananthus incanus leiocalyx (B.20), Oxyria digyna var. elatior (M.113), Lysimachia dubia (B.31) and Datura stramonium (B.120).
Plants referenced: Cyananthus; Oxyria; Lysimachia; Datura
Letter has been scorched with some loss though not of text.

Letter from George Forrest, The Consulate, Tengyueh, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 10 October 1905.
Forrest writes to inform Balfour that he will leave the next day for a journey up the Salween-Irrawaddy divide and will be out of communication for 6-8 weeks. He has engaged a collector with whom he has left some specimens as they are not yet dry. Forrest encloses ‘the scraps of plants I secured during my flight from Tsekou' and thanks Balfour for his gift of photo plates, paper and material but regrets that the plates and paper have been spoiled owing to the fault of the packer, Mr McBean; 'They were most carelessly packed. Firstly they were packed in a box loosely with seams all open. Then the plates and paper were merely placed in open tobacco tins and to crown all, four pounds of ordinary salt was placed on top. The box was simply dripping inside when it reached me.'
Forrest is sending seeds of meconopsis, corydalis and ?liquine; gives brief descriptions.
Plants referenced: Corydalis; Liquine?; Meconopsis
Letter has been damaged by fire with some loss of text; handle with care.

Letter from Arthur Kilpin Bulley, 8A Rumford Place, Liverpool, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 16 October 1905.
Bulley writes to acknowledge receipt of Forrest’s Cyananthus photos and a brief letter from Forrest. ‘The first of his Gentians has just come into flower – not very showy – small purple fl[ower]s. It is 59 in the first consignment. You don’t appear to have any record of it under this number.’ Bulley invites Balfour to come and look over Forrest’s seedlings on his journey south.
Plants referenced: Cyananthus; Gentian
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss of text; handle with care.

Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 18 October 1905.
Grace writes to Balfour enclosing a letter she has received, presumably from her brother George Forrest who she states is in a weak state so may not have written to Balfour yet.
Letter has been scorched with some loss, though not of text.

Receipt from Dulau and Co., Foreign and English Booksellers, 37 Soho Square, London, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24 October 1905.
Invoice for £12.6s for despatch of a seven volume set of Hooker’s Flora of British India that Balfour has ordered to be sent to George Forrest, c/o Thomas Cook & Sons, Rangoon, Burma.
The invoice is slightly scorched with some loss, though not of text.

Report from Henry Hastings, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, dated 13 November 1905.
Hastings, Balfour's Assistant, writes to provide a report from Mr. McBean regarding Forrest's charge of his careless packing of photographic material. McBean is adamant the material was packed carefully and that the box must have been opened by Customs Officials and that it must have been wholly immersed in water at some point. He admits with hindsight that a soldered tin-lined box would have been preferable and offers his apologies.
The report has been charred with some loss, though not of text.