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GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/49
Title
Letter from Grace R. Forrest, Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour
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- 24/09/1905 (Creation)
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1 letter, 1 sheet, 1 page
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Letter from Grace R. Forrest, 'Springbank', Lasswade, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 24 September 1905.
Grace writes to Balfour returning letters that had been passed to her by Miss Traill. 'The news contained in the first one is terrible, and it is only the knowledge that he has escaped that enables us even now to read it without great heartbreak.'
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Permission required from RBGE.
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- English
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- Forrest, George (Subject)
- Forrest, Clementina (Subject)
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Archivist's note
This Forrest correspondence collection summary has been provided by library volunteer Pauline Maclean and archivist Leonie Paterson.