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Patrick Neill’s copy of George Don’s “A Catalogue of a few of the Rarest and Latest Introduced Plants, cultivated for sale at Don’s Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar”, 1813.
Typed transcription – 2 pages from Patrick Neill to Conductor of the Farmer’s Magazine with account of George Don and a request for help for his family left impoverished after his death, 20.05.1814
Typed transcription – letter from David Booth to Sir James Edward Smith, London requesting assistance for Don’s family – from Smith correspondence, Linnaean Society, 24.01.1814
