Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]
Information
Title
Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Col/7/1/1/75
Date
28 Jan 1842
Scope & content
Written from Riobamba [Ecuador]
Letter No 58. Annotated: 'Recd [received] May 28 1842. J.L. [John Lindley, assistant secretary of Horticultural Society of London]'
His collections from Loxa [Loja, Ecuador] were shipped for Panama on 1 Jan by Messrs Polhemus & Mickle [Charles Polhemus and Edward Mickle, American shipping agents in Ecuador], to be forwarded to London via Jamaica or another route; on 19 Jan he sent to Guayaquil [Ecuador] box HS108 with 'the few' collections from Cuenca [Ecuador], containing '29 sorts of seeds', '2 sorts of bulbs', '3 roots of a gesneraceous plant' and '35 species of 506 dried specimens'; he has retained a set of all the seeds ('which I shall carry with me'); he left Cuenca on 22 Jan and arrived at Riobamba on 27 Jan; the town is at the foot of Chimborazo [Chimborazo Mountain, Ecuador] and within view of the snow-covered Tungurahua [Ecuador] and Carguirazo [Carihuairazo, Ecuador], and he intends to visit all of them; he had to buy another mule to help carry the cargo, as the roads are mountainous and bad, so that 'beasts even with the best of saddles are unavoidably cut up'; war has been declared between Ecuador and Peru, focusing on the provinces of Jaen [Jaen, Ecuador] and Maynas [Peru], but he expects to be 'perfectly safe and undisturbed' where he is; he has been told he can reach Popayan [Popayan, Colombia] by 'going with the post, which always takes an escort', and from there he can easily reach Bogota [Colombia]
Hartweg's accounts for 13 Dec 1841-13 Jan 1842 include 'wages of mozo [servant]' $8, 'buying a mule' $30, 'keeping three mules' $7.4, 'box HS108' $0.6 and 'hide and nails for box HS108' $0.4 [here the list includes 3 more items]. Written from Riobamba [Ecuador]
Letter No 58. Annotated: 'Recd [received] May 28 1842. J.L. [John Lindley, assistant secretary of Horticultural Society of London]'
His collections from Loxa [Loja, Ecuador] were shipped for Panama on 1 Jan by Messrs Polhemus & Mickle [Charles Polhemus and Edward Mickle, American shipping agents in Ecuador], to be forwarded to London via Jamaica or another route; on 19 Jan he sent to Guayaquil [Ecuador] box HS108 with 'the few' collections from Cuenca [Ecuador], containing '29 sorts of seeds', '2 sorts of bulbs', '3 roots of a gesneraceous plant' and '35 species of 506 dried specimens'; he has retained a set of all the seeds ('which I shall carry with me'); he left Cuenca on 22 Jan and arrived at Riobamba on 27 Jan; the town is at the foot of Chimborazo [Chimborazo Mountain, Ecuador] and within view of the snow-covered Tungurahua [Ecuador] and Carguirazo [Carihuairazo, Ecuador], and he intends to visit all of them; he had to buy another mule to help carry the cargo, as the roads are mountainous and bad, so that 'beasts even with the best of saddles are unavoidably cut up'; war has been declared between Ecuador and Peru, focusing on the provinces of Jaen [Jaen, Ecuador] and Maynas [Peru], but he expects to be 'perfectly safe and undisturbed' where he is; he has been told he can reach Popayan [Popayan, Colombia] by 'going with the post, which always takes an escort', and from there he can easily reach Bogota [Colombia]
Hartweg's accounts for 13 Dec 1841-13 Jan 1842 include 'wages of mozo [servant]' $8, 'buying a mule' $30, 'keeping three mules' $7.4, 'box HS108' $0.6 and 'hide and nails for box HS108' $0.4 [here the list includes 3 more items]
Level
Item
Extent
3 page letter (1 sheet)
Is part of
RHS archive: plant collector papers
Repository
Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
Copyright
Royal Horticultural Society
Credit Line
RHS Lindley Collections
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Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)