Handwritten transcription of Don's entry in Farmer's Magazine v.15 (1814) No.57 p.131 by Alex. P. Stevenson

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George Don [Sr.] CollectionGDS

George Don Collection - Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don scrapbookGDS/1

Patrick Neill's copy of George Don's "A Catalogue of a few of the Rarest and Latest Introduced Plants, cultivated for sale at Don's Botanic Garden and Nursery, Forfar", 1813.GDS/2

Transcription of George Don's Day Book (1811-1815), including copy of page from the Day Book held at the University of Dundee ArchivesGDS/3

Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - items relating to Mr John Knox, including two versions of his George Don Memoir and his obituary.GDS/4

Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - items relating to Jane Taylor Ewen of Mill Bank, Forfar. Including postcards and photographs showing views of Forfar.GDS/5

Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - George Don's correspondence.GDS/6

Isaac Bayley Balfour's George Don Collection - Various papers / articles / letters relating to George Don and his family collated by Isaac Bayley Balfour.GDS/7

Typed transcription of Farmer's Magazine v.15 (1814) No.57 p.131 - George Don's obituary.GDS/7/01

typed transcription - letter from George A. Don, Bedgebury, Kent, to Mr. Lowson, Forfar, author of Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables, offering information on his grandfather, 11.02.1892GDS/7/03

Typed transcription - end of a letter? Information about a George Don - most likely to be referring to Patrick Neill Don and his son George Don - letter from A. Anderson, Bedgebury Park, 26.11.1910GDS/7/02

Typed transcription - letter from B. Daydon Jackson to W.A. Lowson, Forfar about temporary loss of George Don's letters, 14.05.1892GDS/7/04

Typed transcription - 2 pages from Patrick Neill to Conductor of the Farmer's Magazine with account of George Don and a request for help for his family left impoverished after his death, 20.05.1814GDS/7/05

Typed transcription - 3 pages - Notes for a sketch of the Botanists George [Jr.] and David Don of the Dove Hillock, Forfar, includes an extract of David Don's birth in the Forfar Parish register, author - Alex. P. Stevenson, DundeeGDS/7/06

Typed transcription - Notice of George Don from William Gardiner's Flora of Forfarshire, 1848 - taken from the introductionGDS/7/07

Typed transcription - Notice of George Don's life by Patrick Neill contributed to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 15.05.1851 and published in the North British Agriculturist and Henfrey's Botanical Gazette, 1851GDS/7/08

Typed transcription - letter from David Booth to Sir James Edward Smith, London requesting assistance for Don's family - from Smith correspondence, Linnaean Society, 24.01.1814GDS/7/09

Typed transcription - list of dates and achievements of George Don from Britten and Boulger's Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists, p.56GDS/7/10

Typed transcript - Don's entry in A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists, pp.50-51GDS/7/11

Handwritten note by Isaac Bayley Balfour indicating result of a search through the matriculation registers at Edinburgh UniversityGDS/7/12

Handwritten transcription of Don's entry in Farmer's Magazine v.15 (1814) No.57 p.131 by Alex. P. StevensonGDS/7/13

Map of Forfar traced on poor quality tracing paper from John Wood's map of 1822 showing sites pertinent to George Don.GDS/7/14

Bundle of 9 copy letters, transcribed by hand onto 28 pages, from Patrick Neill to James Edward Smith, 1804-1816.GDS/7/15/1-9

Correspondence / article / notes relating to G. Claridge Druce's Memoir to George Don.GDS/8

Two Photographs of the Don Memorial in Forfar.GDS/9