Correspondence
Maker
William Forbes
Production date
1786-1788
Description
Papers relative to gardens.
1. 1786 February 6 Plan endorsed 'copy of a limekiln sent Sir Jno Dalrymple by Mr Wedgewood'. Plan headed section of the Staffordshire limekilns, stated to be the kind of limekiln used in that part of Staffordshire. Some are deeper where there is the advantage of a sloping bank to build them in.
[Transferred to RHP 92299]
2. 1786 August 23 Directions for workmen to build hothouses, etc. Signed: A and W Driver. Includes sections. [Transferred to RHP 92300]
3. 1786 October 28 Offer by William Wilson, Hawkhead, Paisley, to William Forbes of Callendar, to oversee the building of his hothouses.
4. 1786 December 16. Edinburgh. Letter from John Richmond and Co to Mr Forbes of Callendar. Containing a list of gooseberries from Lancashire; they send a catalogue of fruit [wanting].
5. 1787 April 9. Hawkhead. Letter from William Wilson to Robert Forbes, Callendar House. Discusses building of the hothouses.
6. 1788 May 12. Callendar House near Falkirk. Copy letter ordering
glass for a hothouse.
7. n.d. List of articles not received from Mr Driver [peaches and other fruit trees and Provence roses].
8. n.d. A list of pine apples and vines.
9. List of trees and plants, under headings, peaches, filberts, roses, seeds, beans, kidney beans and miscellaneous, flower seeds, applies dwarf, pears dwarf, vines and raspberries, cherries dwarf, current, gooseberries, apricots, plums dwarf and nectarines.
10. n.d. List of fruit trees.
Note: all these items are damaged and fragile.
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