Correspondence between Professor Victor Westhoff and Tim Robinson including enclosures, listed below. Correspondence mentions Letterdyfe House, and the old Irish tree alphabet. Enclosures include:

'Man's attitude towards vegetation' V Westhoff (1983);

'Letters from the Irish Highlands', which was written by various members of the Black family in 1825;

'The Archives of the peat bogs' by Sir Harry Godwin;

'The Relationships of some bog communities in Western Galway' by D J Boatman (1960);

'The vegetation and flora of some islands in the Connemara Lakes' by D A Webb and E V Glanville (1962);

'The influence of the sea and of parent material on wetlands and blanket bog in West-Connemara, Ireland' (1975);

'Roundstone Bog: the challenges for conservation' Mary O'Connor (Botany UCG), with copy letter to O'Connor from Robinson, with queries about the term 'dubh locháin' for peat-bottomed lakes and a query about slime mould;

'The Biology of Fungi' by C T Ingold, 'Irish Myxomycetes' by B Ing and D W Mitchell;

'Vegetation succession in lakes of West Connemara, Ireland: comparing predicted and actual changes' by van Groenendael, Reopers, Woltjer and Zweers (1996);

'Soligenous influences on wetlands and blanket bog in Western Connemara, Ireland' van Groenendael, Hochstenbach, van Mansfield and Roozen (1981);

A photocopied table of plant communities of lakes in West Connemara.

File of correspondence and enclosed reading relating to heather in Connemara.

Letter from Julian Reynolds of the Zoology Department at Trinity College to Tim (1985) enclosing a list of bogland sites highlighted by the National Peatlands Conservation Committee;

Letter from Maura [Scannell] mentioning a specimen of heather near Cloonagat Lough that won the gold medal at Bundesgartenschau in Berlin in 1985, it was given the name Maura. A traced map outlining this area, and other surrounding areas where Erica MacKaiana was collected follows, and a photocopy of the diploma awarded with the medal (1990);

Fax to Tim from Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington (3 October 1994) enclosing work on E MacKaiana from Lieke Van Doorslaer;

Letter to Tim from Michael Archer enclosing a photocopied page from 'The Origins of Heathers' by Fred Chapple with a theory on how the mediterranean heath came to Ireland. (1997);

Letter to Tim from Anne-Marie McKee of the Department of Botany at UCG with a timetable relating to the Summer Field Meeting of the Mires Research Group in Connemara and Mayo (1997);

Several photocopied articles:

'Notes on Four Irish Heaths: Part 1' Irish Naturalists Journal by D A Webb, (1954);

'Erica Ciliaris L in Ireland' from Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles by D A Webb (1966);

'Further Notes on Erica Ciliarisin Ireland' by David McClintock (1968);

'Historical Records of the Irish Ericaceae - additional notes on Arbutus Unedo, Daboecia Cantabrica, Erica Erigene, E. MacKaiana and Ledum Palustre' by E Charles Nelson (1982);

'Erica Erigene R. Ross - the Mediterranean Heath in Ireland' from Irish Naturalists Journal by Brian Morley and Mary J P Scannell (1972);

'Erica MacKaiana Bab. in Irish Localities and other plants of interest' from Irish Naturalists Journal, Mary J P Scannell and David McClintock (1974);

'Craiggamore and Craiggabeg in West Galway' from Irish Naturalists Journal, M J P Scannell (1975);

'Studies in Erica MacKaiana Bab. 1: Distribution in Connemara, Ireland' from Irish Naturalists Journal, E Charles Nelson, (1981);

'The Unique Flora of Connemara' from The Living Countryside, E C Nelson, (1982);

'Studies in Erica MacKaiana Bab. II: Distribution in Northern Spain' by E Charles Nelson and Maria Isabel Fraga (1983);

'Heathers in Ireland' from Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, E Charles Nelson, 1989;

'Scraw (Schwingmoore) plant communities at Loch an Chorcail, Carna, Co. Galway' by N D Lockhard, M O'Connell, M Sheehy Skeffington and L Van Doorslaer (1989);

Two photocopied pages on Connemara Plants, source not identified.

Two copies of a map showing the distribution of Erica MacKaiana Bab near Roundstone, origin of map unidentified.

Brochure on the Bog of Allen, and one on a Conference to explore the long term sustainability of Ireland's uplands (1995).

Three press cuttings between 1989 and 2012 from the Irish Times on rare heather, and the bogs and carbon dioxide.

Correspondence with enclosures relating to flora and fauna in Irish placenames.

Letter to Tim Robinson from Dave Hogan of Connemara National Park / OPW mentioning 'The White Goddess';

Correspondence with Maura Scannell clarifying names of flora in Connemara, enclosing specimens and dissecting Latin terms (1983-1985);

Correspondence with Tony Whilde of the Corrib Conservation Centre and Hugh Brazier of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy relating to birds in Irish placenames. Later correspondence from Galway County Council to Tony Whilde relating to the preservation of the old bridge at Maam. (1984);

Correspondence with Jo Moran, she encloses her report 'Hypothesis and Notes on Birds of the Blasket Islands', (1986);

Correspondence with Noel McGouth and Tom Curtis relating to donkey grazing at Salvia. (1984).

Correspondence with enclosures of plant specimens and articles from Maura Scannell of the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin. Includes a 1984 paper by Tim Robinson 'Plant Records from West Galway' (drafts exchanged with an editor included later in folder). Correspondence also covers Aughros House / Coney House on the 1860 Admiralty Chart and Walter Wade who did the first botanic investigation of Connemara (1980-1987);

Letter from Noel King to Tim enclosing a map and listing protected species and locations (16 November 1984);

Two letters from Cilian Roden with enclosed articles for proof reading on mountain flora (year unknown);

Series of copied research articles and talks, listed here:

'The Vegetation of Southern Connemara' by Gertrude Connolly (1930);

'Is the Classification of plant communities either possible or desirable?' D A Webb (1954);

From 'Flora of the British Isles' on Erica Ciliaris L. in Ireland' by D A Webb (1962);

'Carex Dioica L. at Lough Coura in County Offaly', (July 1969);

'Craiggamore and Craiggabeg in West Galway' (1975);

'Notes on Irish Vegetation: No 1 The Vegetation of Shingle in County Louth' James White (1981);

'Natural History in Connemara, A Case for Conservation', (1984);

'A Scientific Tour through Munster: The Travels of Joseph Woods, Architect and Botanist, in 1908', G J Lyne and M E Mitchell;

Selected copies on Polygonum oxyspermum, angelica sylvestris L, the Renvyle Hydrilla, Hydrilla Verticillata, Juncus Planifolius;

An Roinn Oideachais 'Ainmneacha Plandaí agus Ainmhithe / Flora and Fauna Nomenclature';

Hand-drawn chart outlining the transport system for food and water, and seed producers.

Photograph of Minulus guttatus and lutea from June 1983.

Several volumes of the Royal Dublin Society's Journal of Life Sciences (1981 and 1982). Offprint from proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 'An Account of the flora and vegetation of Derryclare Wood' by David K Ferguson and Victor Westhoff, and a photocopy of a handwritten letter to David Ferguson asking for stories of Cuach na Coille, a beautiful horsewoman who lived there, and of a lodge owned by the Martin family.

Two press cuttings from the Irish Times (1984 and 1990) on the effect of the warm weather on the seaweed industry and wild flowers.

Letter from Richard Nairn, director of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy discusses tern colonies in Connemara, a survey of breeding birds of machair habitats in Western Ireland with a list of sites for Robinson to review. Photocopied article by Michael Viney 'On the Machair', (1984). Correspondence on machair in placenames - muirbheach, and whether that indicates further sites. Photocopied article 'Breeding waders of sand dune machair in north-west Ireland', R G W Nairn and J R Sheppard, Irish Birds 1985 (1984-1985);

Photocopy of Tim Robinson's article in IWC News (November 1984) 'Birds in Irish Placenames';

Corrib Conservation Centre, Third Annual Report (1984);

Photocopied article from Irish Birds, Vol 2 No 4, 'Survey of Heronries in Connemara, 1974-1977' by J K Partridge;

Offprint of 'The 1984 All Ireland Tern Survey' by A Whilde (Irish Birds 3:1-32 (1985);

Publication from Corrib Conservation Centre 'Corrib Country Ecotour' by Tony While, illustrations by Pádraic Reaney (1985);

Letter to Tim from Paul [Haworth] enclosing a copy of his report to the World Wildlife Fund: 'A Survey of Upland Breeding Birds in West Galway, Eire: Report to the World Wildlife Fund Project 147/84' (1985);

Typed list, undated '100 Birds that can be seen within easy reach of Moycullen and Oughterard'.

Selected photocopies from 'The Natural History of Ireland' Vol 1 Birds by William Thompson (1849);

Newspaper cuttings from Irish Press, Irish Times, (c. 1986-9), all on birds and ornithology;

Two blank 'Species Record Card' from the Corrib Conservation Centre.

Postcard to Tim from [Tony Whilde] noting a sighting of Spoonhill at Carna (1990);

FORUM newsletter (Summer 1998);

Internet print out on Slime Moulds and the ecology of Myxomycetes (website or date not available);

Press cutting (31 October 2002) Irish Times, on slime, and a photo of a specimen seen in a bog pond (January 2003). Press cutting (2007) on fungus, and a photocopied article on 'Eagles in Mayo, A Historical Record' by Seán Lysaght

Copy of a talk given by Stephanie Brookes of Errislannan Manor of the history of the pony in Connemara in 1997;

Press cuttings from Connacht Tribune and Irish Times on the Connemara Pony.

A note from Bill Crowe of Zoology Department at UCG enclosing a handout for the Whit Weekend Sea Shore Ecology Course. Inserted list of animals and plants 'Liosta d'ainmhithe agus de phlandaí' in Irish, English and Latin. Accompanied by drawings of the shells and marine plants.

Brochure for Lá Fhéil Chiaráin, 9 Meán Fómhair 1980.