Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/67
Date
10 Oct 1870
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He has just returned from two days in Gloucestershire to a pile of letters, including a request from the Colonial Office to find a good botanic gardener for Jamaica, and from the India Office for six gardeners for cotton experiments; he is glad of Maw’s research on Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco] and Tenerife [Canary Islands]; they should continue picking up information from Carstensen [Frederick Carstensen, consul in Mogador, later Essaouira, Morocco], and if they find on arrival at Mogador that everything is ready for a good trip, they should take it, and if not they should go to Tenerife first; he has spoken with Washington [unidentified] about his trip to the highest Atlas Mountain, which he said was easy; he would love to be the first to scale the Atlas mountains but botanical success must come first; he thanks Maw for Hodgkin’s book ['Narrative of a journey to Morocco' by Thomas Hodgkin], which is new to him; he can take eight weeks for certain and possibly more, as he has not taken a proper holiday since 1865; he asks Maw to give him a night if he comes to town; the steamer seems cheap enough, if the boats are clean and tolerable, with reasonable food