Correspondence and papers including exchanges of letters and emails with plant growers and garden managers in Ireland, including with John Joe Costin, plantsman of County Kildare, Gary Dunlop, Seamus O'Brien of the Office of Public Works, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Billy Alexander of Kells Bay Gardens, County Kerry, and Adrian Stehr of Killary Hotels Ltd, County Kerry
Correspondance relates to invitations to visit and to lecture in Ireland, questions about plants in Irish gardens provided previously by Roy Lancaster, the management of the gardens at Mount Stewart and issues raised by the acceptance by the Irish Government of international conventions on the collection of genetic resources from other countries, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 1996, and the Nagoya Protocol, 2014
Includes printed copy of poem entitled 'It Couldn't be Done' by Edgar Albert Guest (possibly included with letter sent by John Joe Costin, Dec 2017), copy of article by Roy Lancaster on Dunloe Castle Gardens published in 'The Garden', Jan 1993, and catalogues compiled by Roy Lancaster of plants in the gardens of Hotel Dunloe Castle, 1996, and Hotel Dunloe Castle and Hotel Ard na Sidhe, both in County Kerry, 1998