Christmas card, folded in two with a blank front and back. Adhered to the inside on the right is a colour photograph with a caption. Left side has a pre-printed message.

The photograph is in colour and features Primula whitei, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.

TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Primula whitei

[INSIDE RIGHT]

To you all With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year
[signed] from George + Betty

Ascreavie, Kirriemuir

Christmas card, folded in two. Adhered to the front is a colour photograph with a caption. Inside has a handwritten message, written by George Sherriff.

The photograph is in colour and features Primula odontica, presumably taken by George Sherriff in the garden at Ascreavie.

TRANSCRIPTION

[FRONT]
[COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH]

Primula odontica

[INSIDE RIGHT]

with all good wishes
[signed] from George + Betty Sherriff

Bi-fold Christmas card. Pre-printed card, featuring artwork by Margaret Stone. Handwritten message from Frank Ludlow.

TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]

"HIMALAYAN BLUE PRIMULA"

Primula whitei

This Card, drawn by Margaret Stones, takes with it the wish to help
TIBETAN REFUGEE CHILDREN
to find education & happiness in Dr. Graham's Homes at Kalimpong, Bengal, India

[INSIDE RIGHT]

WITH
BEST WISHES
FROM
[signed] F. Ludlow

[HANDWRITTEN MESSAGE]

One of the loveliest of primulas which you must have
come across in E. Bhutan through possibly not in flower.
Betty Sherriff grows it to perfection in Scotland!
Trust you and the family are well.

Bi-fold Christmas card. Pre-printed card, featuring artwork by Margaret Stone. Signed by Betty Sherriff.

TRANSCRIPTION

printed text in bold

[INSIDE LEFT]

"HIMALAYAN BLUE PRIMULA"

Primula whitei

[HANDWRITTEN MESSAGE]

I know you will be sorry to hear that poor Ludlow has been having trouble with his back and has had to lie up for some months. He says a slipped disc? His is longing to get back to the B.M. [British Museum]

[INSIDE RIGHT]

A Happy Christmas to you all and
and *a with BEST WISHES for 1972 FROM
[signed] Betty Sherriff

This collection consists of material created and gathered from the expeditions of F. Ludlow and G. Sherriff, thought their expeditions of Bhutan and Tibet during 1933-1949.

The collection consists of 5 sub-series: plant documents, expedition documents, diaries, correspondence and visual material.

[1] This series consists of a variety of material which includes plant and seed lists from their expedition with a large focus on Primula, Meconopsis and Rhododendrons, as well as publications gathered by Ludlow and Sherriff which cover their shared interest in the Himalayan region and it's flora and fauna. There is also a garden register donated by the Knox Finlay family detailing the progress of plants/seeds in their gardens acquired from various expeditions including Ludlow and Sherriff's between 1951-52.

[2] This series consists of a variety of expedition documents ranging from itineraries and maps to administration lists and passports.

[3] This series consists of originals and photocopies of the diaries of Sherriff and Ludlow during their expeditions.

[4] This series consists of a variety of correspondence from and to Sherriff and Ludlow over the course of their expeditions.

[5] This series consists of a variety of material including: photographic material, films and videos. Photographic material ranges from prints and negatives taken by Sherriff and Ludlow to prints of digital images taken as exhibition documentation in 2014. The films are..... There have been dvd surrogates made of the films to ensure continued accessibility.

black and white photograph mounted on lightweight white paper

Photograph of a field of Primulas, mountains in the background.

writing on the front of paper

[TRANSCRIPTION]

Primulas in "Swamp Valley"
May 29th [1949]
13,000 ft.

•Box containing miscellaneous notes and papers (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing bound Reference Books (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing British Reprints (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Foreign Reprints – ‘A-Q’ (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Foreign Reprints – ‘R-Z’ (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing Primula Conference Reports: 1886, 1913 and 1928 (Source: Balfour, Smith and Fletcher Reference Collection)
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula Gardener’s Chronicle’ (1928)
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘A-E’
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘F-N’
•Box containing ‘The Genus Primula’ – Typescript Papers: ‘O-Z’
•Box containing miscellaneous photographs
•Box containing a bound collection of photographs with an index
•Box containing miscellaneous photographs – Sherriff reprints by R. Adam and the Royal Horticultural Society. Etc.
•Box containing misc photographs – reprints by R.M. Adam and photos by R. Eudall
Primula/ Ludlow
•Collection of books, papers, reprints, Photographs, etc. on PRIMULA; apparently used, and added to, in succession by I.B. Balfour, W.W. Smith & H.R. Fletcher, is filed in boxes under “Primula” in Main Index
•Papers/reprints include material by I.B. Balfour, W.G. Craib, A Ernst, G. Forrest, R. Farrer, Ludlow & Sherriff (photographs), John MacWatt, W.W. Smith, F. Kingdon Ward, G. Watt, Per Wendelbo, et al.

Letter from George Forrest, Tsekou, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, M.D., 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 13 July 1905.
Forrest writes to say he is pleased to learn that he has discovered one or two new species. Forrest describes where he collected new species of parnassia. He has just returned from a week in the valleys of the Mekong-Salween divide, with favourable results, although the higher peaks and passes were inaccessible owing to heavy snow. There were a surprising number of species in flower, some forcing their way through the snow. Forrest describes plants and habitats of meconopsis integrifolia, corydalis, rhododendrons, primulas and lilium: ‘If I am not the first to send home seed of this species [meconopsis integrifolia], I hope to be the first to send home photos of it taken in situ…’
Regarding the trouble with the lamas, Forrest states: ‘… we have had bad news this week again. The report is that the Chinese have been defeated once more but I cannot vouch for the truth of this.’ ... ‘I am now well on in my sixth hundred of species over six hundred sheets. Got a big rise last week. Three more species of orchidaceae.’
Forrest describes and sketches a peculiar kind of fern [p.12] and sketches a new primula with pendulous flowers [p.8].
Plants referenced: Aspideum; Fern; Fritillaria; Corydalis; Lilium; Meconopsis; Nephrodium; Orchidaceae; Parnassia; Pine; Primula; Prunus; Rhododendron; Saxifrage
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss, including text. The letter has also been damaged, presumably by a plant specimen inserted in the envelope.

Letter from George Forrest, China Inland Mission, Talifu [Dali], Yunnan, to Isaac Bayley Balfour, 'Regius Keeper', Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, dated 07 April 1905.
Forrest writes to apologise that he can only muster 105 specimens but promises he will have done better by his return to Talifu next January [1906]. By next mail will send two photographs of plants, one a primula and one a fumaria.
Plants referenced: Fumaria; Primula