This collection contains items relating to various botanists and plant genera. The first group of items relates to Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767?–1833):

Haworth’s letter (Chelsea, 19 December 1831) to the Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe* (1790–1885) at Bitton, near Bath (Gloucestershire), referring to Ajax albicans, double jonquils, Ganymedes nutams Nob., Iris biflora, I. graminea, Jonquil[la] major (Haw.) Monog. Narcis., J. minor (Haw.) Monog. Narcis., Narcissus moschatus, and the American Pseudorchis. The letter mentions a new edition of his Narcissineärum Monographia (ed. 2, London, James Ridgway, 1831; HI call no. DT100 359 H397N) with additions, including “several fresh doubles,” and also refers to [Robert?] Sweet (1783–1835), John Parkinson’s (1567–1650) Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (London, Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629; HI call no. EA6 P247P), and a monograph Haworth may write on Iris,

A manuscript note by Haworth from Ellacombe’s copy of Narcissineärum Monographia,

A letter (Chelsea, 27 February 1834) from Haworth’s widow to Ellacombe, regarding the sale of her husband’s books and other scientific effects. (7 pieces, all photocopies).

Other items (letters, 7 pieces):

A letter (Warlingham, Surrey, 31 August 1931) from David Prain (1857–1944) to Patrick Hall (1894–1941) discussing the old and new “perspectives” through which botanists have viewed and now view Rosa, and referring to François Crépin (1830–1903) as knowing more about the genus than even John G. Baker (1834–1920),

A letter (Victoria, Australia, 7 July 1933) from T. A. Stewart, editor of The Australian Rose Annual, to H. R. Darlington, upon the death of Darlington’s wife, herself a writer on roses,

A letter (Arbroath, Scotland, 4 May 1937) from Margaret Corstorphine (1863–1944) to Col. Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (1861–1948) concerning work he was to do for a “new Student’s Flora” and ways to approach this work, and containing references to John Heslop-Harrison (1920–1998) and to various species of Rosa,

Two letters (London, 3 May and 8 May 1948) from Alfred James Wilmott (1888–1950) to William Charles Richard Watson (1885–1964) asking questions about and discussing aspects of an article Watson wrote on Rubus.

* Rowley spells this “Ellacombe,” but the address on an envelope is “Ellicombe.” The Dictionary of National Biography gives “Ellacombe” as the preferable spelling.