- GB235 GDS/GDS/4/GDS/4/1/GDS/4/1/1
- Item
- 1881
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Knox, John [of Forfar]
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Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Knox, John [of Forfar]
John Knox’s obituary from the Forfar Herald, 10.07.1914.
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Forfar Herald
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Knox, John [of Forfar]
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Catalogue includes greenhouse plants, shrubs and herbaceous plants, is 17 pages longs and contains the following quote from Don at the end: “this catalogue contains but a small proportion of my Herbaceous Collection; which is equaled by few in Britain, and surpassed by none perhaps but the Cambridge one. I have also upwards of three hundred species of Grasses.”
Front cover slightly annotated by Patrick Neill.
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Folder of postcards and photographs, many annotated by Ewen, from and of Forfar at the turn of the 20th century, presumably all sent by Jane Taylor Ewen, Mill Bank, Forfar to Isaac Bayley Balfour in addition to those stored in Bayley Balfour’s George Don scrapbook, GDS/1.
Includes: 9 postcards
8 photographs of Forfar including one taken at the unveiling of the Don memorial in Forfar churchyard, 08/09/1910 – shows Claridge Druce holding his address and John Knox.
1 pamphlet – “Sixteen Views of Forfar”
1 pamphlet – “A Month in the Country for Working Girls” about a raspberry picking scheme for city girls to work on a Blairgowrie raspberry farm – Jane Taylor Ewen’s cousin is involved; she owns the farm – see Balfour’s Don scrapbook, GDS/1. On reverse of pamphlet is poem written by Willie Taylor, Ewen’s cousin, called ‘Immortality’ (An Ode to Century old rose leaves) – rose leaves thought to have been given to Taylor Ewen’s grandmother by George Don. JTE had to copy out as she could not get a copy. Originally published in “St Andrew”, a parish church magazine. No date. [c.1905]
Plus – 2 photographs of Brechin – not J.T. Ewen’s handwriting on reverse, and postcard to I. Bayley Balfour from Eug. [Eugenius] Warming, Denmark, 21.12.1905 – unrelated to above but found in same folder so kept together.
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Isaac Bayley Balfour’s George Don Collection – George Don’s correspondence.
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
typed transcription of letter from George Don to James Sowerby, 22.05.1799 regarding sending plants to be drawn. Original letter in the British Museum – now Natural History Museum. Letter reproduced in Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, v.iii pt xiv, February 1905
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of George Don [Sr.] Collection
folder contains an original letter written by George Don, alongside an annotated transcription.
Don, George