Showing 9 results

Archival description
Add. MS c/59/100 · Item · 5 Mar. 1918
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - Now has the bark from Mr Honey which looks like Erythrophloeum, but is still waiting on the specimens from the others; re: Mondjo, they have failed to trace this name and speculates that it is 'Datura fastuosa' collected by the Swiss missionary [Henri] Junod for [Hans] Schinz.

Add. MS b/37/117 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Boulevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 16th. March 1919 - The death of Lilly's daughter [Lilly Grove] has been a heavy blow; wonders when he will leave on his expedition [to Uganda] and hopes he met with Sir David Prain.

Add. MS b/37/118 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Bourlevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 26 March 1919 - Describes being called to Paris on the illness of his stepdaughter Lilly Mary Grove and her sudden death; in addition to seeing Sir David Prain, hopes he would see [Arthur] Hinks, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, who might be of good practical help; wonders how the preparations are going.

Add. MS a/597 · File · c 1975
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Xerox photocopies of over 240 letters, many of them of originals housed in other institutions. The letters are written by Frazer to multiple recipients with a few exceptions: eight are written by Lilly Frazer (to Miss Buckley, Sir Edmund Gosse, Bronisław Malinowski, and W. H. D. Rouse); one is from Henry Jackson to Frazer and five more are from others to others (two from Macmillan & Co. to Hermann Diels, one from Sir Francis Galton to Sir Clements Markham forwarding a letter from Frazer, one unrelated letter from John Sampson to Francis Jenkinson, and one memo from Otto Stapf to Sir David Prain). Five letters include covering letters from the institutions providing the copies. In addition, there are copies of a typescript draft of Frazer's article 'Our Debt to France', the draft of an address on the founding of the Frazer lectureships, and a translation of an article.

Recipients, with the number of letters present if more than five: Aksel Andersson, Terence Armstrong, Spencer Baird, Andrew Bennett, Arthur Bigge (Lord Stamfordham), Miss Buckley (of the Loeb Classical Library), Sir Ernest Budge, John Bullbrook, Francis Burkitt, Edward Clodd, Francis Cornford (16 letters), Otto Crusius, Sir Edwin Deller (6 letters), Hermann Diels (10 letters), Samson Eitrem, S. J. Evis, Jesse Fewkes, Douglas Freshfield, Sir Francis Galton (14 letters), Ernest Gardner, Charles-Marie Garnier (6 letters), Sir Edmund Gosse (42 letters), A. C. Haddon, Sir William Hardy (6 letters), Carl Lehmann-Haupt, C. W. Hobley, A. W. Howitt (7 letters), Mary Howitt, Henry Jackson, Francis Jenkinson (8 letters), Oskar Kallas, Sir Arthur Keith, William F. J. Knight, John Mackay, Bronisław Malinowski (9 letters), William Maxwell, A. G. W. Murray, G. G. A. Murray, Sir John Myres, Theodor Nöldeke, Karl Pearson, Sir David Prain (8 letters), Edward Rapson, A. G. Ross, Sir William Rothenstein, W. H. D. Rouse, Gustave Rudler, Charles Edward Sayle, Solomon Schechter (7 letters), Douglas Sladen, William Thalbitzer, Sir J. J. Thomson (21 letters), Sir D'Arcy Thompson, Hermann Usener, Sir Emery Walker, and Alfred Rayney Waller (6 letters).

Ackerman, Robert (b 1935), biographer
Add. MS c/59/98 · Item · 9 Feb. 1918
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - A 12 page letter commenting at length on the Bitter Water chapter [in 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament'], including comments from the Keeper of the Herbarium [Otto] Stapf.

Add. MS c/59/98a · Item · 15 Feb. 1918
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - Clarifies the meaning of 'catchment area' and writes out a botanical name provided by Otto Stapf: Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae Dimorphandreae.

Add. MS c/59/99 · Item · 23 Feb. 1918
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - Forwards typescript copies of two letters concerning Erythrophloeum, from C. A. Wheelwright, Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Pietermaritzburg to I. B. Pole Evans, Chief, Division of Botany, Pretoria dated 30 July 1917 sending specimens, and a letter from Evans to Prain dated 24 Dec. 1917 sending a specimen of the bark of Erythrophloeum guineense obtained from Mr Honey of the Municipal Gardens, Lourenço Marques in Swaziland; Prain indicates he has asked for specimens from both Swaziland and Natal to verify they are both from Erythrophloeum.