Paper: 'The Closure of the pulse breeding programme at PBIC will bring to an end 50 years of faba bean breeding at Cambridge' , D A Bond, G R A Croften and Jane Thomas (1999). Paper: 'Some thoughts on Grain Legume breeding and research in Europe, D A Bond [nd c 1999]. Paper: 'Contribution of autumn sown varieties in improvement of grain legumes', D A Bond and B Carronee (1997). Paper: 'History of Winter Beans (Vicia faba) in the UK', D A Bond and G R A Crofton (NIAB), 1998. Article in Broadcast, Issue 7 (copy) 'A Brief History of Beans', D A Bond [c 1992]. Correspondence with Jane Thomas, Geoffrey Gent, Mervyn Pope (PBI), Monsanto and others regarding the closure. Newspaper/magazine articles about beans, Farmer's Weekly etc. (copies). MAFF Seed Trader's Annual Return Summary (1997). MAFF statistics: Agricultural and horticultural census and Survey of Agriculture 1997-1999. Areas approved for field bean 1994. NIAB variety descriptions of winter beans 1999.
Material relating to the 'History of Winter Beans': Paper: 'History of Winter Beans (Vicia faba) in the UK', D A Bond and G R A Crofton, draft version 17.6.1996, revised version 1.7.1998, annotated version, 8. 1998. Correspondence with the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) about DB's article (History of Winter Beans) for publication in their journal. Correspondence with David Aldrich. Annotated copy of papers of R Vallentine 'On the Cultivation of Beans and Peas' sent by David Aldrich. Correspondence with the British Agricultural History Society, Librarian, University of Reading, Douglas Whitton, G R A Croften and others.
Corresponence with Vitacress Salads Ltd who were asking advice about a broad bean breeding programme looking for a 'short day tolerant variety'. 'Report on Bean Trials at Vitacress Kenya Ltd, Oct 1996-May 1997' and 'Broad Beans-Trial Plan 17th Oct 1996', Tamsin Knight, Crop Development Manager.
Copy of 'Genetics of Crimson Flower Faba Bean', D A Bond in FABIS Newsletter 41 (1998) with letter to editor and original paper drafts; correspondence with H.D.R.A (Henry Doubleday Research Association) about broad bean crimson flowers and between Bob Sherman (Head of Horticulture, H.D.R.A, Ryton Organic Gardens), David Bond and Gary Grief on the earliest mention of crimson flowers in print; correspondence with Colin ? from PBI on allelism, letter to GRA Crofton (Tony), Martin Frauen and Ehard Ebmeyer.
Charts for winter and spring beans 1985, near -isogenic lines 1984-1985, 2 floppy discs.
Paper: ICARDA/Ifad Nile Valley Project on Faba Beans: Report on Back-Up Research Breeding (1982-3 Crop Season), Shaaban A Khalil, ARC (Agricultural Corporation, Giza, Cairo. Paper: ''Visit to the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria, and the Nile Valley project, Egypt, March 1983, G J Jellis (PBI). Paper: 'Some Comments on Dr Jellis's Repoert to ICARDA', S B Hanounik, Plant Pathologist, ICARDA, Oct 1983. Paper: 'ICARDA/Ifad Nile Valley Project - Egypt' (Nassib? Report). DB's? handwritten and typed notes for a paper on the Review Mission. Booklet 'The Gezira Scheme, Past, Present and Future 1981-1982'
Fabis/Lens Users Workshop, Aleppo, Syria, 28-29 November Programme (DB was Chairman for Session 1), includes a loose colour photograph inside of the attendees. Copies of all the papers read at the workshop: 'The Activities of the International Development Research Centre in the Field of Information and Documentation', K P Broadbent (Associate Director IDRC); 'Information Needs of a Scientist from a Developing Country', Sajjad H Qureshi; 'Faba Bean Documentation at ICARDA', P Neate; 'The Lens Experimental News Service (LENS)', K Hindawi; 'A Survey of FABIS and LENS Users', S Dutta; 'FABIS Newsletter Past, Present and Future'. Leaflet about the Vicieae Database Project, Southampton University (1983). Leaflet about proposed International Legume Database Project (1984) David Bond's notebook,: workshop notes (1984). Booklet: 'ICARDA 1983 Research Highlights', ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria. Booklet: 'agris introduction', Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (1984) Booklet: 'High Elevation Research in Pakistan: The Mart/Azri Project, annual report 1986.
Initial coordination and correspondence by DB for the EEC Joint Field Bean Test 1985-1987