- Yapp/2/17
- Subseries
- 1914-1918
Family letters to and from RHY and his wife on the subject of the war.
Family letters to and from RHY and his wife on the subject of the war.
Letter written in both Swedish and English from Lajla to her parents describing their new house in Birmingham. Includes a diagram of part of the layout.
Letters written from RHY to Lajla on his trip to Switzerland in the summer of 1923. The first three letters are written on his journey through England.
Letters written by RHY to his mother during a trip to South Africa in 1905. Also includes a letter written in August 1906 from a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in York at which RHY gave a lecture on South African vegetation, and a press cutting about the lecture.
Photographs taken during Yapp's participation in the Cambridge University Expedition to the north-eastern Malay states and Upper Perak in 1899-1900, led by William Walter Skeat. The expedition party consisted of W.W. Skeat (Christ's College, Cambridge), Nelson Annandale (Balliol College, Oxford), Richard Evans (Jesus College, Oxford), D.T. Gwynne-Vaughan (Christ's College, Cambridge), Frank F. Laidlaw (Trinity College, Cambridge), and Richard H. Yapp (St John's College, Cambridge). Laidlaw and Yapp joined the party later, in August 1899, and Yapp sailed for England in February 1900. The photographs in this collection date from October 1899 until the end of his trip, though most are undated. Some dates can be determined from published accounts of the expedition and from Yapp's correspondence. The descriptions given in all cases are what is written on the envelope.
Letters from RHY to Lajla during the 1920s, excluding those from his trip to Switzerland in 1923, which are filed separately.
Letters written to RHY on botanical matters. Most date from 1911 to 1914; there is one letter from 1926. Also included is the menu and seating plan for the Royal Society's anniversary dinner in 1913. One letter includes a plant sample.
Loose prints originally stored in a variety of photographic wallets and envelopes. None is dated, though some dates can be established where the glass plate negative can be identified. Prints are of landscapes, vegetation, and parts of plants.
Love letters RHY to LKY post-wedding
Letters written from RHY to his wife following their marriage. Letters are numbered in a new sequence, 1-98, with no gaps or envelopes. There are pressed plant specimens enclosed in two letters.
Love letters LKY to RHY post-wedding
Handwritten letters from Lajla to her husband. Letters are numbered continuously from sequence pre-marriage, 107-186, with some gaps. Empty envelopes are present for numbers 187-189,191-192,194-203, and 207.