RBGE Archive

GB 235 PEX/1/D/20
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2002

Part of Peter and Euan Cox Diaries and Notebooks

letter dated 26/06/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi via Konglu, via Fort Hertz, via Myitkyina, Upper Burma, to Celia Noble

GB 235 RJF/5/20
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26/06/1920

Describes being happy living between a bamboo shack and a tent in the mountains. Returns to a hundred letters from Celia, his Mamma & others giving him a panoramic view of his life & people back home. Expresses disappointment that Celia & Cynthia not joining him but accepts he is coming straight home in January. Reads her letters little by little when falling asleep.

Farrer, Reginald John

India

GB 235 PEX/1/D/21
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2004

Part of Peter and Euan Cox Diaries and Notebooks

View of a deep border, with open country in the distance, possibly Morelands (62 x 88mm).

GB 235 MCW/4/2/21
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undated

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

Primula hirsuta, Amy Cameron image (120 x 168)

GB 235 MCW/4/3/21
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undated

Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

Berneuxia thibetica, F1528

GB 235 RJF/2/3/21
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18/05/1920

Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

letter dated 18/08/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, etc. c/o T. Cook & Sons, Rangoon, to Celia Noble

GB 235 RJF/5/21
Item
18/08/1920

Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

Writes of his uncertainty of their friendship, returning to life in London, parties, insufficient money to live in London (plans to come up to London to judge at the RHS, a few days a fortnight) Speaks of being happy and viewing this year as period of wonderful growth & realisation and refreshment. Enquires about Celia's re-constructions with Freud's representative, hopes he still remains present. ‘My happiness remains waterproof.’

Farrer, Reginald John

Correspondence from Smith, expressing regret at the hospitalisation of indigenous garden worker at Lloyd.