Roland Edgar Cooper - Correspondence and Papers - Assorted Documents
- Reference:GB 235 REC/2/3
- Dates of Creation:1916-1961
Scope and Content
- Extract from letter dated 18th September 1916 from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour to Roland Edgar Cooper [in Cooper's hand? written out on Cooper's lecture notes?] Original copy in Isaac Bayley Balfour correspondence folder: GB235rec/2/1/19
- Typescript of two letters, the first from William Wright Smith to Isaac Bayley Balfour, 27/05/1921; the second from R.E. Cooper to William Wright Smith, 04/06/1921 from the Botanic Garden in Maymo, Burma.
- [William Wright Smith?] to R.E. Cooper, 28/06/1929 regarding identification of plants.
- R.E. Cooper's collecting numbers - brief summary by Cooper with two copies, 03/03/1931.
- Modern list outlining Cooper's ethnographic donations to the National Museums of Scotland in 1931-32.
- Partial copy of John Anthony's "Remarkable Alpine Lobelia from Bhutan" published in the Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, July 1936.
- List of determinations of Bhutan grasses sent on loan to Dr. Bor of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 01/05/1948. "R.E. Cooper's collection"
- letter: R.E. Cooper to Harold Roy Fletcher, 10/10/1961
- Three pages of Collection Numbers entitled "Cooper's Bhutan Collection" - undated.
- "Cooper's Saxifragas, etc." arranged according to Engler et Irmscher Monograph - undated.
Administrative / Biographical History
Assorted documents relating to R.E. Cooper, provenance unknown and arranged by date where known.