Farrer Family Collection - watercolour paintings
- GB 235 RJF/2/3
- Série
- 1914-1920
Parte de Reginald Farrer Collection
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Farrer Family Collection - watercolour paintings
Parte de Reginald Farrer Collection
John MacWatt's publications and writing
Parte de John MacWatt Primula papers
A collection of John MacWatt's writing, including both published and draft articles; also poetry, newspaper cuttings and pieces of writing associated with MacWatt's work.
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Roland Edgar Cooper: Cooper's Writing, mainly unpublished
Parte de Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
REC/3: Roland Edgar Cooper – Cooper’s Writing, c.1930-c.1960
REC/3/1: "Abnormal Cyclamen Growths" [Cyprus] by R.E. Cooper with two accompanying photographs by Robert Moyes Adam. Written 1933? [Intended for Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh but never published?]
REC/3/2: "A Scented Hybrid of Lilium Bulbiferum Croceum (Aurantiacum)" by R.E. Cooper, reprinted from the Lily Year Book 1948.
REC/3/3: Unpublished paper on Seed Morphology in the Genus Primula - text and 14 plates of photographs and illustrations. [Written in the 1930s?]
REC/3/4: Unpublished 10 page typescript entitled “The work of William McNab, landscape gardener, 1780-1848, The Royal Botanic Garden at Inverleith”; covers a history of the Inverleith site, Cooper’s opinion of McNab’s skill in laying out the Garden, a diagram of sightlines in the south west corner, and 9 of Cooper’s photographs taken in the Garden.
REC/3/5: “Received with Thanks” the unpublished autobiography of R.E. Cooper. Added to the collection in August 2020 after being donated to RBGE.
Cooper wrote extensively - the archive collection only includes a small sample of what were presumably the author's own copies. See Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Library catalogue for the rest of his output.
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F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Ephemera
Parte de F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Papers connected to F.R.S. Balfour
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Parte de Reginald Farrer Collection
Two folders relating to Farrer's second expedition to Upper Burma between 1919 and 1920 and his death there. Correspondence is mainly between Farrer and William Wright Smith, Deputy Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but also Isaac Bayley Balfour, Lionel de Rothschild, S.R. Fasoms, and post Farrer's death, Claude Barton of the Ingleborough Estate Office, Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Euan H.M. Cox, H.M. Farrer of Farrer and Co. solicitors [dealing with Farrer's estate] and Farrer's mother, Bessie requesting coloured paintings of Gentiana farreri and Lilium farreri so that glass windows may be made up for the church in Clapham.
There are also seed and plant lists, identifications and distribution lists to subscribers [though no list of subscribers was found].
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Farrer Family Collection - photographic material
Parte de Reginald Farrer Collection
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Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 2
Parte de Reginald Farrer Collection
Inscribed 'J. Purdom, from C.H. Hough, Xmas 1912. This appears to be from Purdom's first expedition to China between 1909 and 1912 and covers Peking, Amdo and River Tow in Tibet, Jehol, Peling Range, Kansu, Choni, and pictures of people and places, including one of Purdom himself.
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Parte de George H. Cave Collection
Scrapbooks relating to John MacWatt's life and work
Parte de John MacWatt Primula papers
Three scrapbooks relating to John MacWatt's life and work.
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Parte de Thomas Blaikie collection
Green vellum file, annotated ‘Claims upon the French Government by Thos. Blaikie’, containing 17 handwritten letters and notes by and to Blaikie, mainly in relation to losses incurred during the French Revolution. These include correspondence with the Office of Commissioners for Claims on France, James Lee at the Hammersmith nursery and the Foreign Office. The papers date from 1791 to 1890. (Box 1)
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