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part of 3 boxes of lantern slides, seemingly of people, plants and locations in Japan, and possibly also some taken in the European Alps[?] and Canada.
part of 3 boxes of lantern slides, seemingly of people, plants and locations in Japan, and possibly also some taken in the European Alps[?] and Canada.
Box 4: 1916-1918; folder of correspondence, mainly to mother but correspondents also include Aubrey Herbert, E.A. Bowles, William Purdom, Nell Purdom [William's sister], Hugh Faulkener and Italian Legation, Beijing. Subjects include Farrer's operation, John Buchan, gardener's pay, London Air Raid, World War One and Edinburgh. Also, letter from John Buchan, Ministry of Information dated 12/12/1917 referring to Farrer's writing; and folder of documents relating to Farrer's time at the Ministry of Information, 1917-18.
Box 8: Plays / Dramas by Reginald Farrer, including 'La Reine des Perses' [in French], 20/03/1895, includes poem 'Hymn to Astarte Syriaca', 10/06/1895; 'The Martyr', 25/09/1903-05/10/1903; 'The House of Stark' - various drafts; 'Hearts and Diamonds' - just last Act, but includes Farrer's illustration of 'Lady C'; and 'The Spanish Duchess'.
A compilation of photographs of Tibetan and Kansu people and scenery from both of Purdom's Chinese expeditions, 1909 - 1915. Many of these photographs appear in other albums.
A small collection of photographs, some dated 1912, many taken in Peking. They include Purdom with the Commercial Attache to the British Legation, Sir Alexander Hosie, and include images of W. Christie with Mission children. There are many undated photographs of Purdom on expedition in Kokonor, Shansi and Honan.
•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)
•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’
•Box containing papers, correspondence, microfilm and information regarding the 1970 accrual of index cards. •Two boxes of collection field books •One box of papers and correspondence on ‘Nutrition and Vitamins’ •One box of papers on ‘World Food Problems, etc. and Food Science’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods in Europe (except Britain and Russia)’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Britain’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Russia’ •Two boxes of papers titled ‘Emergency Foods – North and West Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Central and South East Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – Middle East and India’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – China, Malaya, Hawaii and Australia’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods – U.S.A.’ •One box containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Emergency Foods - Canada’ and one of papers on ‘Food Plants of U.S. Indians’ •One box of papers on ‘Emergency Foods Central and South America’ •One box of papers on ‘Commodity Plants’ •One box of papers on ‘Voandzeia (Bambarra Groundnut)’ •One box of papers on ‘Bee-Keeping in Africa’ •One box of papers on ‘Edible Earths, Snakes and Insects’ •One box of papers on ‘Cattle and Sheep’ •One box of containing two folders, one of papers on ‘Lizards and Mammals (East Africa)’ and one of containing a Zoo Aquarium Guide •One box containing miscellaneous papers, papers on crop plants and bibliographies •Six boxes of index cards and papers, divided from: Nos.1-50 (92); Nos.51 (93) – 80 (146); Nos. 81 (147) - 111 (212); Nos. 112 (213) – 134 (249); Nos. 135 (250) – 174 (313), Nos. 175 (314) – 183 (332)
