Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw

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Scope & content: Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript

Maw is most kind about Helmsly [William Botting Hemsley] and he hopes Helmsly will accept Maw’s offer of a letter to Gibraltar and go to Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco]; Helmsly had planned to go to Coimbra [Portugal] to his friend Goeze [Edmund Goeze, botanist] of the botanical garden there, but he thinks he would do better in Tangiers; he thanks Maw for sending seeds; Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch] is working hard at the herbaceous ground; communication with Mogador [Essaouira, Morocco] seems abundant, but he thinks the English steamer line is the one they already know about; he has read Hodgkin ['Narrative of a journey to Morocco' by Thomas Hodgkin] and was disappointed, though glad to have seen it; he offers to send J.G. Jackson’s account of his trip to Morocco back with it

Credit Line: Courtesy of David Symonds Hooker / The Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker / RHS Lindley Collections