Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/97
Date
31 Aug 1871
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He is glad to hear of Maw’s safe return and good results; he thanks Maw for the promised plants; Hunot’s [George Pierre Hunot, British vice consul at Safi, Morocco] Euphorbia from Deminet [Demnate, Morocco] has arrived rotten; Mr Lynch [Richard Irwin Lynch] goes to Mr Ellacombe’s [Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, botanist] on Wednesday night, and he asks if Maw would have him on Friday or Saturday; if so, he asks what Lynch should take besides the Euphorbia from Ha Ha [Haha, a Berber tribal area, Morocco]; he has received long and curious letters from F. Rogers [Freeman Rogers, who provided translations of Moorish fables for Hooker’s eventual book], who sailed for Armenia last Saturday, and will send him more; he is becoming deeply interested in Marocco [Morocco]; he asks if Maw saw the article in last week’s ‘Spectator’ on Marocco and D. Hay [John Drummond Hay, British minister resident to Morocco]; his journal of their voyage ‘drags on’; he reminds Maw to return the table of altitudes