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/1/113
Date
Sep 1872
Scope & content
Written from Torquay. Manuscript
He is visiting his mother due to her illness, just as the enclosed and the Draba arrived [enclosure not present]; he gave the Draba to Oliver [Daniel Oliver, librarian of the Kew Herbarium] and pocketed the letter; Maw’s planned journey is tempting, and he wishes he could join him on it; with the guarantees he has been given it would not be dangerous, but he would proceed with caution, and make enquiries beforehand; the conditions are favourable and Maw should get a good harvest of plants; it is a pity that Ball [John Ball, botanist] has gone to Italy, as he has visited mountains in the district; his mother is better, though each attack leaves her weaker than before; he heard the other day at the Foreign Office that Carstensen [Frederick Carstensen, consul at Mogador, later Essaouira, Morocco] is to be assigned another vice-consulate, and he hopes that Hunot [George Pierre Hunot, British vice consul at Safi, Morocco], who has been appointed unpaid vice-consul, will succeed him; he has heard that the English merchant [Broom] who was robbed and stabbed on the beach near Mogador [Essaouira] is still very ill; the Ha-ha-ites [Haha tribal members] also plundered a ship which was wrecked in the bay, and threatened Mogador; Mrs Carstensen wrote him a letter about it. Dated Wednesday [1872; an earlier listing stated the letter was ‘from 1872 packet’ and the subject matter matches letters written in Sep 1872]