Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw

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Scope & content: Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript

He will look out for such a man but fears he will be unsuccessful; any cultivator of alpines who will also travel on the continent to collect can do better for himself than to work in a garden; he asks if the writer of the enclosed letters [enclosures not present] might be suitable, and if so suggests Maw send him to Kew to work under Duncan [unidentified] if Smith [John Smith, curator at Kew] approves it, to be trained to Maw’s requirement; he knows nothing of the man except what the two enclosed letters state, and asks that they be returned soon; Maw should write at once to Mr Wilson [William Wilson] at Warrington, using Hooker’s name if he is not acquainted with him

Credit Line: Courtesy of David Symonds Hooker / The Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker / RHS Lindley Collections