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/1/161
Date
20 Jan 1877
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He thanks Maw again for the croci; they will have a splendid collection thanks to him; Maw’s paper as to species will be scrupulously attended to, and he will instruct Smith [John Smith, curator at Kew], Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch] and Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium]; Harriet [Harriet Hooker, illustrator, his daughter] has finished copying all of the drawings in the Horticultural Society Library copy of Herbert’s [William Herbert, botanist] monograph, including croci, narcissi and others; he wishes he could ‘run off’ to the Riviera with Maw but between Kew, the Royal Society and the Government Offices he is too busy; he has just sent a revised edition of the Primer [‘Science Primers: Botany’ by J.D. Hooker] to press, and is preparing a second edition of ‘The Student’s Flora of the British Isles’; he wishes he could do without these botanical [illegible word] as it is hard at 60 to ‘work for one’s head’ at night and give his day to scientific administration; he is however very happy, and his late stage in life has been in every way possible a comfort to him