Mostrando 2856 resultados

‘No. 7. / LIST OF PRIMULAS/ DR MACWATT, Morelands, Duns, N.B.’ Booklet (207 x 131mm), composed of a single fold of off-white paper, printed in black on all four pages, undated but presumably post 1914-1918 War.

Incomplete letter from George Forrest, China Inland Mission, Talifu, to Clementina Traill dated 28 March 1905.
The letter is incomplete, comprising pages numbered 1-12, 13 and 15. Forrest continues his description of Tali [Dali] where marble is the main product; details of production process; wood for furniture mainly walnut and other trades include silversmiths, coppersmiths and horn workers. Description of house construction, method of brickmaking, ornamentation and arrangement of buildings; female clothing, make-up and footbinding, men’s dress and hairstyles. Education consists almost entirely of learning Confucian classics; parental power of life and death over children; prevalence of opium smoking and suicide; wide variety of food available. Includes rough sketch of a two-storey house and of a pouch for holding cash.
Plants referred to: on pp.12-13: Apricot; Bean; Cabbage; Carrot; Filbert; Fig; Gleditschia; Grape; Lemon; Mandarin orange; Pea; Peach; Pear; Persimmon; Pomegranate; Potato; Rice; Sapindus; Sultana; Turnip; Walnut

‘Flowers from Duns’, short note (cutting 36 x 67mm) probably from the same journal as GB 235 MCW/3/4/5, referring to material sent by John MacWatt.