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/1/72
Date
12 Dec 1870
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He approves of Mr Fielding [unidentified], and will happily join in employing him and providing expenses, salary, and materials for his art; he is getting ‘quite hot’ about the expedition [to Morocco]; Mrs Hooker loves the vase, as does Frank Palgrave [Francis Turner Palgrave, art critic, Hooker's cousin] who was at Kew at the time; he is shocked that Carstensen [Frederick Carstensen, consul in Mogador, later Essaouira, Morocco] has not written, and hopes that he is just making enquiries before writing; if they cannot visit Marocco [Marrakesh] itself, they should try Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco], Tetuan [Tetouan, Morocco], Mogador, and other coastal places, and try and get inland; they should make fine collections and should take their artist all the same. With envelope