Correspondence to and from botanists and plant specialists in the United States of America relating to family news, plant information and identification, notices of the deaths of botanist colleagues (including Pamela Schwerdt, 2009, joint head gardener at Sissinghurst, Kent for 31 years, and Patricia Bender, 2010, former president of North American Rock Garden Society), exchanges of plant specimens, and planned visits to the United Kingdom and plant collecting expeditions elsewhere. Correspondents include Tom Clark of the Polly Hill Arboretum, Massachusetts, 2008-2009, Bobby Ward, North Carolina, 2009, Bill McNamara at Quarry Hill Botanical Garden, 2009, Stephen Spongberg of Arnold Arboretum, 2009-2016, James Fox of Medina, Washington, 2009, Elwin Orton of Rutgers University, 2010, Dan Hinkley of Heronswood Nursery and Windcliff, Washington, 2010-2014, Sean Hogan, 2011, Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson of Far Reaches Farm, Washington, 2011, and Mark Weathington at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum, North Carolina State University, 2014. Most emails include Roy Lancaster's draft replies in manuscript
Includes copy of book chapter entitled 'Why I Garden' and publication agreement with Timber Press, with brief details of other contributors, 2011