Rhododendron heliolepis, F1065, Hpawshi Pass
- GB 235 RJF/2/3/14
- Item
- 03/07/1919
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
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Rhododendron heliolepis, F1065, Hpawshi Pass
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Rhododendron habrotrichum / Rhododendron species, F887
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Rhododendron basilicum, F873, Hpimaw
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
letter dated 08/01/1919 from Farrer, Ennismore Gardens, London, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Convalescing, Celia had sent him pheasants, no substitute for her presence. His book, Void of War - she regards well, as do others - he likes the praise.
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 11/05/1919 from Farrer, Hpimaw Fort, Upper Burma, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Not heard from Celia. Describes being in no man's land, a wild sparse wilderness and the overmastering romance of China & Tibet. Going to spend the winter in the golden palaces of Mandalay - invites her to join him there. ‘Stand as it were in exile, looking out over the infinite smiling distances of Szechuan. The freedom is divine.’
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 05/12/1919 from Farrer, In Camp, Wind-c-Water Pass, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Describes about to leave his camp to winter in Mandalay. Accepts Cynthia might marry another not him. Enthuses about the merits of women but no understanding at all of men. ‘Men, they are a perpetual puzzle, contradiction & delight.’
Farrer, Reginald John
letter dated 26/07/1919 from Farrer, Hpimaw Fort, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writing to "Sweet Poison" [Ernest Gye] as resting after a ten days' trek searching for a hypothetical Rhododendron during which it rained relentlessly. Feels rudderless and needing the anchor of wedlock then swings away from this idea. Fed up with some Captain staying with Jumps [Euan H.M. Cox] and him who talks endlessly -Farrer states his ages makes him less tolerant, loses patience and ridicules him for being five-foot-nothing. Soon to go down to Htawgaw then a month's camping in a high-alpine valley which he hopes will be profitable and amusing. Complains of lack of art, architecture and antiquity in this country. Writes of the beauty of Nomocharis pardanthina, like a pink lily with a spotted Odontoglossum all over the alpine meadows, asks Ernest Gye to experiment with its seed.
Farrer, Reginald John