Melbourne:. Original holograph and typescript manuscript page proofs with correspondence [manuscript title on a bound folder of material], with related mataerial, all contained in a handsome solander box with title label.

The manuscript comprises approximately 58 leaves (rectos only), mainly quarto, a mixture of corrected typescript and holograph sheets. The page proofs (octavo, 33 leaves, including preliminaries, printed rectos only) are for the Special Horticultural Number of the Victorian Historical Magazine, Volume 18, Number 1, February 1940; lacking the last two pages according to the manuscript. also included are letters from well known nursermen such as William Crowther, Hattie Leckie, and R.A. Crouch, and two fine letters from nurseryman W.R. Hawkins (quarto, 4 pages, January and August 1940), in which he reminiscences about the early days, 'having been in business continuously for 53 years'.

PROVENANCE: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector.

WITH:

Pescott, R. T. M. Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria. Melbourne: National Museum of Victoria, 1954. "To Dr C. Irving Benson with the compliments of R Pescott April 1954".

Pescott, E. E. A census of the genus Acacia in Australia. Sydney: Octavo, 24 pp., stiff cloth covered boards. "A. J. Campbell esq. with kind greetings Ed. Pescott New Year 1914".

The Royal Society of Victoria from then, 1854 to now, 1959. Sydney: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 1961. "With compliments R Pescott"