Includes copy comments on AG Brown's draft.
Correspondence post John Innes and some loose typed poems (one dated 1965): correspondents include Harvey F Mack and Norris W Rakestraw at the Journal of Chemical Education, USA, Leslie J Jones, Aeronautical Research Council and Dr P H Greenwood, head of the Fish Section at the Natural History Museum, includes a letter (photocopy) from the John Innes Institute to her aunt Mary Webb on receipt of the comic verse notebooks and 2 files of documents.
Correspondence and reports on wheat samples in 8 sections: Portugal: (1928-9) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Portugal including wheat types Algerian, Precoce and Prodigio, Ideal, Temporao, Alexandre, Reiti and Gentil Rosso, includes a hand drawn map of Portugal showing wheat growing areas. Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Croatia, Dalmatia, Sarajevo: (1928) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Yugoslavia including Potiska grown near the river Tisa, Spahinska, wheat grown in the Backa region, wheat types Nova Varos, Kriva Palanka, Prilep, Gornje Lisice, Sv. Nikola, Marena Veliko Hoce and Donja Banica, 22 wheat samples from the provinces of Croatia, Slavonia and Srem, chart of wheat grown in Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Travnik, Banjaluka and Uzice. Poland, Russia and Romania: (1928-1942) Poland: list of winter wheat; Russia: correspondence with C Flaksberger (U.S.S.S.R Institute of Plant Industry) on hybrids and speltoids, lists of wheat samples; Romania (Varna, Armenia, Turkestan): list of samples and local wheat grown in Bulgaria and Turkestan. Syria (Aleppo), Spain (Mahon, Castellon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Navarre, Vizcaya, Leon, Seville, Valencia, Salamanca) and the Canary Islands: (1928-9) Syria: wheat grown in Aleppo giving local name, district, soil type and characteristics; Spain: on samples from Mahon, Castelon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Vizcaya, Navarra, Salamanca, Valencia; Canary Islands: wheat grown on the island of Tenerife (includes an annotated postcard of the island). Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, Malta: (1928-1939) correspondence with prof. Enrico Avanzi with his list of Italian wheats, list of 98 samples of Triticum, Malta wheat. Greece: Corfu, Salonica, Crete, Cyprus: (1928) about growing methods and conditions in different parts of Greece, Thessaly, a report on types grown, conditions and yields of wheat in Greece from the Lake Copais Company, reports on samples from districts in the Peloponnesus and the island of Zante, Salonica, Crete and Cyprus. France: (1935) Turkey: Smyrna: (1928-9) samples from districts around Smyrna and report on growing methods, conditions etc. , a postcard from Smyrna showing a man ploughing a field with oxen.
Letter to Bateson from the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, re investigation of diseased peas, 1910; brief correspondence between Bateson and James Kelway (Kelway & Son) re the outcome of the Corry v Kelway legal case concerning gradus peas, 1924.
Correspondence on Tulipa: to CD Darlington from AD Hall and WJCL about tulip beds in Merton?
Correspondence on Tulipa from GP Baker: location of varieties of tulip in France, Greece with specific notes on T. chrysobasis, cretica baiss, duer fleri, hegeri,hab retimo, vasiles and fles solis; Peter Clutterbuck from Kashmir, India about an unnamed yellow tulip; the British Consulate in India, Reginald Schomberg about tulips from the Asia; H.M Office of Works, Thomas Hay, Park Superintendent, Hyde Park, about T. lanata, chrysantha bulbs collected in Zanskar, Kasmir, collecting seeds in India for the Royal Parks and Gardens and naming a variety; JH Thomson Glover on T.chrysantha and clusiana;
Correspondence on Tulipa from A Bolotov, Government Botanical Garden, U.S.S.R and notes and letter from the National Portrait Gallery re. photograph of ADH for record
Correspondence on Tulipa