Letter from Sir Henry W. Acland, Oxford, to John Hutton Balfour dated 1870; Acland understands that the matter was to be taken up by Ralph Anstruther and that a memorial would be prepared in Edinburgh unless he draws one up. Acland has just returned from southern France and will look into the matter.
Letter from Sir Eldon Gorst, Foreign Office, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 17 August 1905.
Gorst is directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne 'to state that he has been requested by Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, in the provinces of Yunnan, to inform you that there seems unfortunately little doubt that an Englishman named Forest [sic] was murdered on July 21, in the course of the disturbances which have lately occurred in the region of the Upper Mekong.’...
Letter has been charred with some loss, though not of text.