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•Hand written letter dated 11 Jan 1945 to: Davis, Peter Hadland
Dinsmore, J.E.•Correspondence, re: late brother’s affairs dated 1889 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” correspondence under “Dickson, Archibald”
Dickson, Archibald•monograph; 8 pencil written notes of a biographical nature (originator of letter was James Grieve) detailing his work on Violas at Dickson's Ltd.
and extract of Roy Genders ‘Pansies and Violas’
•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)
Johnston, Hamish1 page letter. Handwritten.
attached to 1 letter.
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The page lists numerical entries, including '66°', '1.0822', '9646', '75876', '19292', '1929', and '10425.981', with a time noted as 4.00 pm. No narrative text, places, or personal names are present.
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66°. 1.0822
4.00 pm 9646
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1929
10425.981
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The OCR text consists solely of repeated instances of the word 'The' and contains no readable diary content. No dates, places, or persons can be identified from this page.
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The page is largely blank with extremely faint handwriting, making reliable transcription impossible. Only fragmentary characters are visible along the right edge, likely from the adjacent page.
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Based on the image provided, the page appears to be a sheet of lined paper with extremely faint, nearly illegible handwriting. Most of the page is effectively blank, but there are some very light pencil marks on the lines and some text visible on the right edge, which seems to be from the following page in a notebook.
Due to the extreme fading of the text, a reliable transcription of the main body is not possible. The visible fragments on the right edge are:
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Notes plans to go to Nagartse via Yamdrok Tso and hopes for work east of Bumthang, with Tibet possibly late for butterflies and flowers. Records weather, colour photography of flowers, scenes in the Ha valley, and a visit to Ha from Damthang including riding Tobgye’s ponies, playing football, and tea with the Zimpon.
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Report on B.B.:- Very good throughout.
the Yamdrok Tso, as we will go to Nagartse. This news has cheered us up a lot. If we can now get 6 weeks in the area E. of Bumthang, we will be getting all the collections we have time to work this year. Tibet in fact may be too late for either butterflies or flowers, but we should get some seeds, & at any rate see what the birds are there.
7th June. Another day with a little sun, & fine all morning. Took some photos in colour of flowers in Coventry's contraption. They have turned out fairly well, but drying ordinary negatives is a difficult business, as in this damp climate they take more than 24 hours, sometimes as much as 48.
B.B. contd.
Views of villages in Ha valley bet. Damthang & Ha. Yaks at Damthang leaving for their summer pastures. B.G. A Bhutanese with a yak load with two children. Bhutanese women.
10th June. Damthang. Three good days with very little rain & a fair amount of sun. On 8th went to Ha, riding Tobgye's ponies, for lunch & tea with Tobgye. After lunch played football with the boys, a hard job at that height with heavy clothes & boots on. Some of them play pretty well. After football had tea with the Zimpon - Tobgye's lama, an old family lama of the good type. He seemed a very decent