Farrer Family Collection - watercolour paintings
- GB 235 RJF/2/3
- Series
- 1914-1920
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Farrer Family Collection - watercolour paintings
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 4
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Photographs recording Purdom's work as Advisor of the State Forests for the Railways. It shows Kwang Shan Po Forest Station, Chi Kung Shan, the selection of a site for establishment of forestry nurseries, the Hsi Ling tombs, Li Kia Chia, the survey of the Kalgan Railroad for afforestation, and ends with some shots at the railway station during the 1920 famine.
Purdom, William
Reginald Farrer - Lakeland Horticultural Society Photographic Albums
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
The albums appear to be from William Purdom who travelled and collected plants with Reginald Farrer in Kansu / Gansu, northern China in 1914-1915, but one was compiled by Reginald Farrer and three relate to their collecting trip, so all 5 albums have been stored within the Reginald Farrer collection.
Farrer, Reginald John
Reginald Farrer – correspondence to Lady Celia Brunel Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
A collection of 21 letters donated to the RBGE Archives in 2017, written by Reginald Farrer and sent to Lady Celia Brunel Noble.
Noble, Lady Celia Brunel
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
letter dated 06/05/1920 from Farrer, The Residency, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Describes being somewhere very remote, like Eden. It takes 9 days to reach an outpost where letters can arrive. Hopes this Arcadian state will continue and glad he is alone, writes negatively about Jumps's [Euan H.M. Cox's] presence when he was in camp with him previously. Doing some painting of flowers and landscape, using the Chinese and Japanese convention as there are trailing rolls of white cloud around. A minute fly a nuisance. He notes there is the possible vendetta locally but he will await events and he has raised the Union Jack, which he thinks people find vastly reassuring. ‘I am gone down to the bedrock existence unadorned, & there, never thinking of the lovely fluffs & frills of life, achieve a bare and barbarous glory of contentment.’
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 25/06/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Yesterday, a coolie brought three letters from E. Gye, and 90 others from friends, all sopping wet and these were dried over the kitchen hearth. Pleased to get them, gives advice about E. Gye's life although aware it is likely to be out of date - surprised E. Gye going off to Tehran and sad he will not be in London when he returns. Writes again that he is enjoying his solitude without Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] as he felt responsible for his enjoyment - in camp it has been raining solidly for 3 weeks. Rewriting his book called Empty House about which he begs E. Gye to comment. Writes of Amelia, a friend again, thanks E. Gye for a book. Notes he has received money from R.G.S. (The Gill Award) £36 & royalties of £24 from the Eaves, which he views as windfalls. ‘All letters were sopping wet, caked into a pie. Sadness can't be allowed to mean shirking: one may cry over the broken eggs but the omelette of life has to go on being made all the same. Indeed I'm an egg myself: appreciate me please.’
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 25/07/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writes of friends in London, writes of being positively happy in the mountains in the rain - painting & writing. Complains of paints being too slow drying and having to be baked by a bonfire. Now down in Capua, hoping for post and going in a fortnight to Moku-ji pass. Enjoying reading La Trompeuse and other books. Also rewriting Empty House, cutting out large sections - again not sure it will pass the agent, reader or censor.
Farrer, Reginald John
Primula silaensis, F1695?, Chawchi
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Rhododendron genestierianum series glaucum, Nyitadi
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection