Item 4 - Letter from F Ludlow to J.H. Hicks

1 sheet of paper

1 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

Transcription

BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London

18/7/64

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

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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Created: 17 Sept 2026, C. Kemnitz