All communications should be 
addressed to 
The Director. 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, 
KEW, SURREY, 
5th September, 1927* 
Dear Mr* HoIt turn, 
I am sending you a copy of our new Illustrated 
Guide, which I hope you will consider compares very 
favourably with the admirable Guide which you recently 
sent us of the Singapore Gardens. You may be interested 
to know that I took your Guide up to the Stationery Office 
and it was owing to the excellence of your publication 
that I managed to get the Stationery Office to do ours 
as well as they have done It. I put it up to them 
that it was rather a blot on the Stationery Office work 
to be beaten in their publications by Singapore, so I 
am very much obliged to you for having given me the 
opportunity of getting our Guide produced as well as it 
has been. 
With reference to my visit to Singapore next year, 
I have now got my sailing dates and as far as I know, I 
shall be reaching Singapore from Batavia on Monday March 
19th and shall be able to stay in the Straits Settlements 
and Federated Malay States until March 23rd, when I leave 
for horn©. 
Looking forward to seeing you and the Gardens 
Malaya, 
Yours sincerely. 
in 
R.E.Holttum Esq., 
Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, 
Straits Settlements. 
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