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•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]

•1 letter dated December 20, 1837

Copy of his obituary, 1896
•Copy of eulogy
•Notice of interment

•References to “Handbuch der Blütenbiologie” filed in “Balfour, I.B.” papers under “Oxford Unversity Press”

•Letter, dated, 2 January 1900, re: (proposed) visit to Socotra, filed with “Balfour, I.B. correspondence”, under “Socotra”

•2 copies of letters by or referring to him

•Capt. L.D. Fraser. ‘Military Report of Yun-Nan: Part III, Route Book’, Calcutta,1901. (Belonged to George Forrest so was stored with Forrest collection, but is now housed in the Rare Book Room)

one sketchbook of 18 flower paintings with inscription "Edith H. Nobbs, from her mother, St Petersburg, January 1st 1902"

• Letter to Dr. Robert Wright regarding Orchids, dated 8 Sep.1832
•Copy of a typed letter [for I.B.B] from Dr. Masters, regarding having a memoir of Lindley prefacing one of ‘their’ volumes of the Annals of Botany (21 Jun 1903)

•Letter to P. Neill Fraser (7 Nov 1904)