Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour

• Reference:GB 235 TEMPELW
• Dates of Creation:1900 - 1922
• Name of Creator:
  Elwes, Henry John
  Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
• Physical Description:
  1 box, 40cm

• Scope and Content

  Box of correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour, to be added to Isaac Bayley Balfour's correspondence collection in due course.
  There is a reference to John MacWatt and Lilian Snelling in letter 11 from 1915 (Snelling also in letters 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40 - and again throughout 1916. Refs to Snelling coming to Edinburgh and Mrs Balfour getting her lodgings in November 1917. Ref to Snelling attending IBB's lectures, April 1918
  Letter from Dr Homi (Yasuyoshi) Shirasawa in 1910.
  27 Sept 1913 - reference to Robert Moyes Adam's private work
  31 Aug 1914 - reference to Isaac Bayley Balfour's thoughts on photography versus botanical illustrations
  26 April 1915 - reference to Inverleith House being commandeered for military purposes
  6 May 1915 - referreing to Snelling and Moyes Adam, "She is undoubtedly very clever - a fine colourist. I have given instructions to my photographer to photograph everything she does on the day she draws it so that we may have a sun picture of what she has drawn"
  references to Col. F. Bailey's wounds, 1915
  15 June 1915 - reference to L.B. Stewart enlisting
  1915, 41 - copy letter from G.H. Cave

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Son of John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour was Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922, specialising in Rhododendrons and Primulas and making improvements to the RBGE's teaching and laboratory facilities.

• Access Information

  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/

• Note

  Son of John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour was Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922, specialising in Rhododendrons and Primulas and making improvements to the RBGE's teaching and laboratory facilities.

• Archivist's Note

  This is a collection of letters between Balfour and Elwes that was presumably boxed separately from the Balfour collection both because of its size and because it enabled it to be easier to find at the time. It's now thought that it should be returned and catalogued as part of the Balfour correspondence collection (GB 235 RBG/1/IBB/1/1/E) and this is a temporary catalogue record to allow the collection to be findable before then. (LP)

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE

• Additional Information

  published

  TEMPELW

  GB 235