Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/93
Date
30 Jul 1871
Scope & content
No address. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for his note; half of Crump’s [Edward Crump, a Kew gardener who accompanied them to Morocco] salary for the seven weeks they paid him was £5 5s; adding half of Crump’s passage home and deducting a third of the money Crump gave them for a mule sold leaves £5 15s for Maw to pay; he will pay for the medicines as Maw provided [illegible word], drinks[?] and utensils; he will compare the irises and let Maw know the result, and if Maw’s is the wrong plant he will write to Hay [John Drummond Hay, British consul]; he still has some fossils and a Euphorbia for Maw; he thinks his Salvia taraxacifolia is all right; he thanks Maw for his offer of dried specimens but does not anticipate needing them; Maw should keep a little herbarium of his trips; he asks Maw to send the address of Marocco Steamers, so he can send it to Hunot [George Pierre Hunot, British vice consul at Safi, Morocco]; the Carstensens [Frederick Carstensen, consul in Mogador] spent a day at Kew