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Contains letters and cards to and from RHY relating to the University Expedition to Malaysia 1899-1900. Includes personal letters from RHY to his family, letters to RHY from W.W. Skeat, M.R. Baldwin, Henry Burkill, H. Harold W. Pearson, and Alfred P. Wallace. Letters from 1910 relate back to matters associated with the expedition. There is also a list of equipment with translations, and a list of articles wanted from Eaden Lilley and other Cambridge suppliers from E Third Court, St John's.

Letters between members of the Yapp family to RHY or Lajla or them both. The majority are from RHY's mother, but there are also letters from his brother Arthur, his sister Ada, or her husband Will. Four letters were written by RHY to his mother from Italy in 1911. There is also a letter from F.E. Weiss.

Letters from friends and family congratulating the couple on their marriage. Includes some earlier letters of congratulation on their engagement.

Three letters from RHY to his mother describing the wedding, plus a list of photographs with notes on those that had been ordered.

Letters written from RHY to his wife whilst away from home 1915 to 1919.

Letters written from Lajla to RHY, mostly during 1915-17, plus a single letter from 1919.

Contains letters from Lajla to Maja 1919, postcards from RHY to his children, one family photograph including Lajla, Margaret and Eric taken in Sweden, a letter from Lajla to her mother 1925, from RHY to Lajla 1927 regarding his mother's health, to Lajla from her cousin Florrie, to Mother and Daddy from Eric and Margaret, and to Lajla in 1929 from C. Elsee agreeing to act as her executor if still capable when required.

Letters regarding RHY's final illness, condolences sent to Lalja and other family members. An obituary for RHY from the Bulletin of miscellaneous information No. 4, 1929, produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is also enclosed.

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.

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.