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/1/204
Date
5 Nov 1880
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He is always glad to hear that Maw has returned safely, as he has been successful for so long he fears one day he will not; he thanks Maw for the croci; this ‘wretched’ autumn has been hard on the autumnal croci at Kew; he would help Mr and Mrs Dupuis [Hanmer Lewis Dupuis, vice consul at Casablanca] if he could, but he has no personal influence at the Foreign Office apart from representing scientific claims; Colonel Johnstone [unidentified] of Bangalore [India] will write to Maw about hanging labels for their garden; the Malleable Iron Company have written to Smith [John Smith, curator at Kew] and placed all the blame for the crooked mounts on Kew; he is selling some of his botanical library to raise money for a plot of land on the Bagshot sands; he has some books that he does not want but that will not sell, and hopes to gift them to friends; he offers Maw a copy of Desfontaine’s ‘Flora Atlantica’