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

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Scope & content: s [Edward Crump, a Kew gardener who accompanied them to Morocco] food and expenses from their passage, which came to £4 2s, and odds and ends amounting to £1 1s, of which Ball [John Ball, botanist] paid a third; he asks Maw to pay £2 8s towards these extras; Crump’s whole passage home cost £5, excluding food; he does not see why Maw should pay for nine and a half weeks of Crump’s salary, as he was surely of little use to him; he is employing Crump in the herbarium where he is ‘as stupid as an owl’; Crump thankfully has found a job as a gardener at £70 per annum, with house, coals, vegetables and such; he is thankful he was not asked about Crump’s character as a gardener; he expects Maw is right about the A. arisarum [Arisarum vulgare]; if he writes his book he will publish Mr Rogers’ [Freeman Rogers, who provided translations of Moorish fables for Hooker’s eventual book] note; he thanks Maw for his correction on Iris juncea

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