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Various matters relating to the work and development of the Institution are covered: suggested lines of research, building improvements, equipment and funding etc. Sir David Prain is the principal correspondent. Included are manuscript notes by Bateson and others.

Contents of an envelope. Chiefly letters of application and enquiry to Bateson.

Correspondence and papers, mostly relating to the response of the John Innes Trustees, including two typescript drafts of their official response.

Bateson's correspondence with Laxton Brothers, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and others, with related papers. The material relates principally to the grant application; earlier and later material is included. Included are the following: copies of reports by the John Innes Horticultural Institution on the hybrid fruit trees received from Laxton Brothers, at K.55, K.56; a manuscript titled 'Notes on Fragaria' by C.W. Richardson at K.56.

This material was found together. Included are letters appertaining to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries grant application (see K.54-K.56)

Included are manuscript notes by Bateson.

Contents of an envelope so inscribed. Brief correspondence with B.T. Rumble; 6pp manuscript draft of Bateson's application for permission and fair copy version; manuscript draft of a letter to [?Sir David Prain].

Letter from Durham to E.J. Allard, head gardener, re plant seeds from Teneriffe, 1913; letters to Durham from A.W. Hill and Sir David Prain, 1914, 1915, re various plant species; 10pp manuscript draft of a paper by Durham, 'A Contribution to the study of inheritance of mice with reference to their susceptibility to transplantable tumours', nd. On the back of the final page of the draft is a manuscript note: 'Report IV Evolution Committee of Roy Soc.'.

A few other correspondents are included in B.6. Includes Charity Commission document dated 12th January, 1909 in WB/B.4 (A)

Copies of letters, chiefly from Bateson, to Directors etc of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Most of the letters not by Bateson are from staff and Council members of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, including E.J. Allard, D.M. Cayley and B.T. Rumble. A list of John Innes Horticultural Institution correspondents is at the front. The correspondence has been kept in the order in which found.