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Drawings and watercolours of Aquilegia copied from botany magazines and 19th century botany books and notes on Aquilegia and Tulipa

Comic poems, plays, epigrams and letters about staff at John Innes by BS and colleagues (e.g. The Batesonian Women after The Trojan Women by Euripides) on paper pasted in 2 notebooks, includes some explanatory notes, letters and articles. Loose paper pasted into two BX Library notebooks.

Brenhilda Schafer: correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings, watercolours (mainly on research on Aquilegia) and two notebooks of comic verse. Mostly written during her post as secretary and librarian for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Institute, Merton 1926 -1942 with some additional correspondence and writing while working for BX Plastics (including as editor of the BXL Review, Xylonite Magazine) and during retirement. Brenhilda Schafer (11.4.1900 - 1973), BSc., (Lond) Birkbeck College: librarian, registrar and secretary for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Centre 1926 - 1942. While at John Innes she worked on the genetics of Aquilegia and Aconitum. Published articles: Anderson, E and Schafer, B (1931) 'Species hybrids in Aquilegia' in Ann.Bot, 639-46, Anderson, Edgar and Schafer, B (1933) 'Vicinism in Aquilegia vulgaris' in Amer.Nat.67, 190-2, Schafer, B (1934) 'Uniformity in bibliographic particulars' in Nature, Lond, 133, 380., Schafer, B and La Cour (1934) 'A chromosome survey of Aconitum. I.' in Ann.Bot, 48, 693-713. From 1942 she worked for BX Plastics.

6 black and white photographs, 1 sepia photograph and 1 postcard of Aquilegia; postcard of 'Blue columbines and aspens - Colarado' to Brenhilda Schafer from Mollie Marriage, 29th June 1936.

49 black and white photographs of Aquilegia including some of illustrations and prints, named plants; 'long spurred white' in Ingwersen's "scented caerulea" strain, Aquilegia Helenae, A. coepulea, A. pinetorium, A. glandulosa, A. alpina, A. suaveolens, A. truncata and authentic wild chrysentha

20 black and white photographs of 'Spanish flora' with a letter to Brenhilda Schafer from Kathleen (enclosed with the photographs), letter dated 29th May 1932

60 black and white photographs of Aquilegia including some of illustrations and prints, named plants; A. canadensis, helenae, vulgaris "Rose Queen", 'steak pattern in vulgaris', ecalcarata, pyrenaica, chrysantha, coevulea "Mrs Nicholls", einseliana, glandulosa, leptoceras var chrysatha, discolor, flavescens, jacunda, vividiflora, parviflora and Russian Marishuria(?), Amur River.

Mainly about Aquilegia but also discuss her poetry and colleague gossip.