Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - correspondence
- GB 235 KEW
- Collection
- 1921 - 1950
•Two boxes papers regarding loans and correspondence, divided from 1921-32 and from 1947-50
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - correspondence
•Two boxes papers regarding loans and correspondence, divided from 1921-32 and from 1947-50
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
James Todd Johnstone collection (Librarian, RBGE, 1912-46)
• GB 235 JJT/1: Index to Botanical References & Publications – Foolscap Book “Army Book 72”: alphabetical indexed ledger, ms. entries and ms. and typescript loose sheets (includes ms. notes to RK, William Wright Smith, on botanical references, and typescript note from W. W. Smith, 1931–1937,) 1927. Index includes lists of bibliographic references to monographs and scholarly journals, with 6 pp. listing County Reports of Scotland (1794 to 1814) and England (1794 to 1815).
• GB 235 JJT/2: “Index to Rhododendrons & Primulas”: alphabetical indexed ledger, ms. entries and ms. and typescript loose sheets (includes misc. plant notes, typescript List of Works on Primulas, and ms. list of rhododendrons), 1923.
• GB 235 JJT/3: “Index to Scottish Botanists” in “The Portland Letter File”: alphabetical indexed ledger, with ms. loose sheets, Note inserted in file: “It is quite possible that this was compiled by Mr J T Johnstone, RBG Librarian. DMH [Douglas Henderson], 1973.”
Above material, apparently prepared and used as personal reference source by J. T. Johnston, Librarian of RBGE 1912-46 and are filed under “Johnston, J.T. (Librarian)” – in individual box
Johnstone, James Todd
Dr. Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti correspondence with William Wright Smith
1 box of correspondence between Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti and William Wright Smith dating from 1922-1930.
Handel-Mazzetti, Dr. Heinrich
Lord Headfort - Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas (4th Marquess of Headfort)
•Some correspondence is filed with Sir. Wm. Wright Smith papers under “Smith, Sir Wm. W.”, “Rhododendron Correspondence”, material boxed alphabetically in these boxes
Lord Headfort - (Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas)
Letters, exam papers and horticultural handbook from the family of Thomas Douglas Grieve
Goethe, M. (Expedition to the Andes, 1924 )
2 folders relating to M. Goethe's Plant Collecting Expedition to the Andes, 1924
•Folder 1: correspondence, dated 1924 – 1925, with M. Goethe, Henry D. McLaren & Prof. W. W. Smith
•Folder 2: Original handwritten list of 273 specimens of plants & seeds collected by M. Goethe
Goethe, M.
F.R.S. Balfour correspondence, 1936-1945
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/1/3/001-155: 154 letters (024 does not exist) mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith but also John Macqueen Cowan, William Edgar Evans, David Wilkie(?), Gertrude Balfour and Vera Higgins, dating to between 1936 and 1945.
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour correspondence, 1930-1935
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
FRS/1/2/001-129: 129 letters mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but alsp Gertrude Balfour, John Macqueen Cowan, Foister, William Gibson and John Andrew, dating to between 1930 and 1935.
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Correspondence
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Correspondence, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
Papers relating to Colonel F.R.S. Balfour of Dawyck, including Correspondence, papers relating to the Rhododendron Conference due to be held in 1939, and papers related to the Landowners' Co-operative Forestry Society Ltd.
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen