- GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/4
- Subseries
- 1880 - 1914
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
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Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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
Copies of Don's entry in Young and Lowson's 'Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables'
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17 photographs acting as a photocopy of George Don's entry in the 1893 publication 'Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables, from drawings by John Young'. Letterpress by Alexander Lowson, pp.39-52, 178-9 and Young's portrait of George Don [Jnr]. Date of photography unknown - 1960s-1980s? perhaps earlier?; photographer unknown. Photographs were found among the Don reprint collection, January 2014.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Correspondence pertaining to George Forrest's employment and first expedition to Yunnan, SW China.
Part of George Forrest Collection
Forrest, George
Ludlow and Sherriff; Photographic Material
Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his employment and first expedition
Part of George Forrest Collection
Two Photographs of the Don Memorial in Forfar.
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
MacWatt collection- Photographic prints of people
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
MacWatt collection- Photographs of the garden at Morelands
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers