Letter from D. Nevill [Dorothy Nevill] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from D. Nevill [Dorothy Nevill] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/291
Date
1880
Scope & content
Written from 45 Charles Street, Berkeley Square [London]. Manuscript
They were delighted with Maw’s Crocus monograph; she imagines having such an occupation is a great pleasure, along with owning the plants themselves; she asks Maw to send her Froebel’s [Theodor and Otto Froebel] catalogue as he said he could; if he could possibly send her a bulb of ‘that glorious red crocus’ she would be very happy; her new garden brings her great pleasure, and she is ‘mad for gaudy flowering plants’; she hopes Maw will visit her when he is next in London. Dated 16th [?1880; the subject matter matches letters written in 1880; the reference to her new garden may refer to her move to Stillyans; although Maw’s ‘Monograph of the Genus Crocus’ was published in 1886, Maw sent a ‘specimen’ of it to Charles Darwin in November 1880 and may have sent similar specimens to others including Nevill]