Collection of 7 Inscribed and Signed letters from Robert Graham Scottish physician and botanist from 1842 to 1844 with the recipient being George Drummond Steuart 1798 - 1847 of Braco Castle.The letters are generally a friendly correspondence discussing flowers, salmon fishing on the Tey and other matters. Robert Graham 1786 – 1845 was a Scottish physician and botanist. He was the University of Glasgow's first Regius Professor of Botany, from 1818 to 1820. Born in Stirling, Graham studied at the University of Edinburgh and at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, was licensed as a surgeon, and set himself up in private practice in Glasgow. He was a visiting physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1812-1813 and from 1816 to 1819. Graham gave occasional lectures in Botany at the University from 1816, and was appointed to the Regius Chair soon after it was created in 1818. During the following two years he was involved in laying out the new Glasgow Royal Botanic Institution's gardens at Sandyford. In 1820, he moved to the University of Edinburgh as Regius Professor of Botany and Keeper of the King's Garden. Graham went on to establish a new botanic gardens in Edinburgh and opened the largest palm house in Britain. He was the first President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. Sizes are approx is 182mm x 115mm and 150mm x 95mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases and some light age toning.