Subseries M - Letters in the Hutton Balfour bound correspondence from surnames beginning M

Identity area

Reference code

GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/M

Title

Letters in the Hutton Balfour bound correspondence from surnames beginning M

Date(s)

  • 1834 - 1881 (Creation)

Level of description

Subseries

Extent and medium

333 letters in bound volumes (part)

Context area

Name of creator

Balfour, Professor John Hutton
(1808-1884)

Biographical history

Regius Keeper between 1845 and 1879

Repository

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

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Scope and content

333 letters from people with surnames beginning with M, to or belonging to Professor John Hutton Balfour that have been bound in to albums of correspondence, presumably by his son Isaac Bayley Balfour.

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Conditions governing access

Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

Conditions governing reproduction

Permission required by RBGE.

Language of material

  • English

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