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Correspondence with Gérard Duc (INRA), 1995-2002: advising GD on articles, hybrids, zero tannin etc. including an article for DB to review/edit: 'Faba bean (Vicia faba L.')' (1995), annotated by DB. Correspondence with David Cook (Askam Bryan College of Agriculture) about merits amd breeding of determinate field beans (1991). 'Establishment and vigour of Winter Beans 1990/91' by Mervyn Pope: summary of 1990/91 trials and differential establishment/vigour in Winter bean and possible causes.

Correspondence and material for the faba bean data list including variety, parent/origin, original breeder, year and country and their research into Tannin free faba beans and seed coat colour. Croften was also writing a review of seed coat colours in Vicia faba. Croften sent copies of his relevant correspondence to Bond. Discussing their own research growing faba beans at home; the 'tendril mutant sibs' and 'independent vascular system' plants (2002). A translation of the J Picard paper 'Annales de l'Amélioration des Plantes' (1976) as 'An account of the inheritance of the absence of tannin character, in the seeds of the field bean (Vicia faba L)' translated by G R A Croften, Dr D A Bond and Dr G Duc. Letter to Croften about article they are working on 'Changes in Sowing data and Seed Rates for Winter Beans (over last 50 years)', (1998). Memo from Adrian J Shirlin about faba seed coat colours search results (1996). Letter to Professor Jose I Cubero (Cordoba University, Spain) on genetics of the inheritance of seed coat colour in Vicia faba and 'Grain Legumes in Spain'. Ideas for adding to ICARDA (The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) list. Letter to Gérad Duc about paper 'Two genes for White Flower' (2003) and collecting information for a data base of the breeding/parentage of faba bean varieties. Reprint: 'Potential seed multiplication problems arising from the existence of two genes for the absence of tannin in Vicia faba L.', G R A Croften, D A Bond and G Duc, in Plant Varieties and Seeds (2000) 13, 131-139.

The first edition of this work, by Darlington and J. Ammal, appeared in 1945 under the title 'Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants', London (Allen & Unwin) 1945. This 1955 edition has expanded the scope to include all the flowering plants. Typescript draft with manuscript revisions and inserts (and manuscript Preface) in Darlington's hand.