ID17275
CollectionNorman Carrothers Papers
Collection Web Addresshttps://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/ulster-university-cole...
Reference
Description

Envelope marked 'Carrothers' correspondence' containing letters relating mainly to botany, c1920s-c1960s.

This collection includes, for example: Letters from Irene Andrews, Chicago to Norman Carrothers, regarding book plates, her forthcoming publication and her hopes to produce a book on Irish ExLibris, 1927-1930.

A book of letters written to Norman Carrothers by Mrs Mary Louisa Wedgewood, referring to plant specimens and her visits to Belfast and Dublin, 1923-1940. This book also contains an obituary of Mary Louisa Wedgewood (1854-1954), which notes that she devoted her life to the completion of a herbarium for British plants at Marlborough College, 1954.

A scrapbook on the botanist, Augustine Henry (1857-1930), compiled by Norman Carrothers which includes several letters from Elsie R Patton, Bangor, County Down to Norman Carrothers, seeking information on Augustine Henry, 1963-1966.

AccessBy prior appointment.
Date1800-1975
Century19th, 20th
Keywords
Repository NameUlster University Archive & Special Collections, Coleraine Campus
AddressColeraine County Derry
UK Postal CodeBT52 1GA
Telephone+44 28-7012-4345
Email Addressarchive@library.ulster.ac.uk
Email Address 2library-AHSS@ulster.ac.uk
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.ulster.ac.uk/library/services/university-archive
Repository Web Address 2https://guides.library.ulster.ac.uk/specialcollections
latitude55.14930
longitude-6.67597