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1 page letter. Handwritten.

1 page letter.

Enclosed material:

• 2 photographs of Dicksonia x lathamii, images of spores taken by an SEM by Peter Edwards (Sept. 1983)

Attached to 3 letters:

• From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (20 Dec 1984)
• From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (14 Jan 1986)
• From A.C. Jermy to J. Aldred (n.d. Jan 1986)

1 page letter. Typed.

Enclosed letter from M. Gibby to J. Barcock (19 April 1985)

•Letter and exchange request / book plate c.1890? French collector looking to exchange books? Reference to an Ex-Libris Society. Reaux based at 26 Rue des Dames, Paris. Letter and Card found in RBGE copy of Matthioli’s ‘De Plantis Epitome Utilissima’ 1586 [belonged to John Hope, so presumably not received by exchange with Reaux]

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.

Receipt letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to the Co-operative Bees Ltd, Ness, Neston, dated 29 June 1906.
Standard letter giving identification of seven plant specimens:
No. 1, Spiraea Ulmaria
No. 2, Asphodelus fistulosus
No. 3, Polygonum molle
No. 4, Spiraea Humboldtii
No. 5, Lindelofia spectabilis
No. 6, Veronica Teucrium
No. 7, Potentilla chrysantha
Plants referenced: Asphodelus; Lindelofia; Polygonum; Potentilla; Spiraea; Veronica
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss.