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Yapp/2/22
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- 1919-1920 (Creation)
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1 folder paper
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The majority of this correspondence is letters to RHY congratulating him on his appointment at Birmingham. The folder also contains a letter from Evelyn Spence Weiss thanking the Yapp's for their letter of condolence on the death of her mother, papers relating to house-hunting in Birmingham, a letter from Seward asking RHY's advice regarding the directorship of the Cambridge Botanical Garden, together with RHY's draft reply, a letter from Francis Darwin regarding a testimonial (not present), a draft from RHY regarding his request for an assistant and discussing possible candidates, plus two printed notices: one for the Royal Society meeting of 13 November 1919, and the other regarding Edith Sinclair Martin's nomination to the Senate at Queen's University Belfast.