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- 18 July 1964 (Creation)
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1 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.
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BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London18/7/64
My dear Hicks,
Yours of the 4 July, Sherriff [George Sherriff], I know, has written to you about the photographs. I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan. I </u>have no slides in the Museum.</u> If you will let me know what negatives or transparencies you want, I will send them on of course, the colour transparencies good as they were in 1949, are not up to present-day standards. That cannot be expected. I had a fortnight in Scotland and enjoyed my stay three immensely. I spent 3 days, in Edinburgh working in the Herbarium, which is now housed in a new and magnificent building which the Queen [Elizabeth I] opened a short time ago. Apart from occasional attacks of arthritis Sherriff [George Sherriff] seemed very fit. Betty [Betty Sherriff] too was in fine form, very busy as usual with a multitude of tasks.
Yours,
F. Ludlow
[Letter included a list of photograph negatives that Hicks took in East Bhutan.]
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Will come to London to choose x copy?
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written in cursive
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1 sheet of off white paper, written in ink
Condition: crease running horizontally across the center of the sheet. Minor crease top left corner. Minor tear & discolouration at top edge. Two slits in upper left hand corner from the pages being attached. Minor discolouration along the edges.
approx. dimensions: 113x178mm
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- Hicks, John Herbert (Subject)
- Sherriff, George (Subject)
- Sherriff, Betty (Subject)
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Created: 17 Sept 2026, C. Kemnitz