Deel No. 115 - Letter from John Gilbert Baker to Bernard Quaritch

1 folded sheet.

Royal Gardens, Kew. - Afraid he cannot accept Quaritch's invitation to the Omar Khayyám club dinner at Henley in July. The editor of the Illustrated London News has written asking for a photograph of the rose [grown from seeds taken from the rose at the tomb of Omar Khayyám]; he has instead sent a sketch by his wife which he thinks 'will do it better justice'. Postscript: next year, the rose will be propagated and planted out in the public part of the Garden.

Tipped into O. 10a.42.

The sketch by Hannah Baker referred to, originally published in the Kew Gardens Bulletin No. 90, Jun. 1894, is reproduced in FitzGerald, E., & Wrentmore, C. Q. (1926). Letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853 to 1883, opposite p. 110.