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Set of letters and notes between William Wright Smith, A. Grove, H.D. McLaren, F.C. Puddle, and William Edgar Evans and including references to Messels of Nymans, all relating to Frank Kingdon Ward's Lilium wardii no. 6034.
•Personal files and papers and his obituary •Kew correspondence with Sir Arthur W. Hill (1921-1940) and A.D. Cotton (1921-1945) •Correspondence with Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Borde Hill (1922-1939) •Swedish correspondence (1923-1951), including correspondence with HRH the King of Sweden (1937-1951), Dr Harry Smith, Upsala (1925-1957) and Dr H.G. Bruun (1928-1939) •Correspondence regarding Rhododendrons (Lord Headfort - Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas) •Directors correspondence (1929-1936) •2 framed photographs of W.W. Smith and an envelope of photographs possibly belonging to him •Reprint of The Bannatyne or Bute Mazer and its carved bone cover by J.H. Stevenson published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, v.LXV, 1930-31 including a Botanical Note on the Plant represented in the carving on the Mazer Lid by Professor William Wright Smith, King's Botanist in Scotland, pp38-39.
• Two boxes of papers and correspondence • Box of original manuscripts in English of ‘First Step in Botany’, published in Bengali (1876) • Box containing three books of correspondence • Box of notes on Botany in Manipur • Box of books and correspondence on Gossypium • Box containing his diary from 1878, a notebook of P. Neill Fraser’s and a text book with specimens inside it. • Box containing notebooks and plant lists • Three boxes of cotton papers and correspondence • Box containing papers on commercial products of India • Box containing correspondence regarding commercial products of India • Folder containing two of the same photograph, one mounted, one not, of Abies Smithiana, Noghanda-Bagi Forrest, Sisula • Numerous boxes of glass plate negatives
•Box of ‘Fungi References’, reports, descriptions and field notes •Folder containing his thesis ‘Fungal Succession Found on Bird Pellets and its comparison with the Dung Sequence’ (Jun – Oct 1959) •Four folders of papers •Two boxes of material for a biography of James Bolton (1735-1799) and his collecting sites and lecture notes on the same. (Slides are kept in the slide collection)
•Box containing a photocopy of his diary from 1962 (the original copy is with his family), transcript of his, diary from 1952 when he was an apprentice at Mount Stewart Gardens, Co. Down, and correspondence (1973-1985) •Box containing correspondence and recollections of Henry Howden (Harry) Bryce, former gardener at RBGE, collection dating 1913-1990 •Box containing folder of photos (negatives and contact prints), possibly New Guinea in 1962? (includes two photos of Canon Norman Cruttwell) Photos are mainly of local people, events, villages, mountains and scenery.
photographs relating to Jennifer's career at RBGE, Flora of Turkey, cigarette cards, Betty Fletcher's History of RBGE (written 1954) and folder of Flora Iranica S.E.M. photographs of Umbelliferae fruits.
•Correspondence with Jonn Mackay (1800-1801), G.A. Walker Arnott (1828), P. Neill (1828), J. McNab (1834), R. Graham (1826), and also referenced to correspondence with G. Don (1802-1812) and W.M. McNab (1818 and 1823).
