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/1/116
Date
2 Nov 1872
Scope & content
Written from Kew. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for thinking of him with his little book on Marocco [Morocco], which he will return when he has read it; he is glad to see Maw’s journal printed, and will turn to it at once; Ball [John Ball, botanist] has asked him to publish any journals, but he is too busy and his recollection has been dimmed by subsequent events; he longs for Maw’s liberty of life; it is depressing to work under a chief in whom you have no confidence; he dreads opening every letter from the Board in case it contains something offensive, and he suspects every unusual communication; he wishes he could join Maw on his trip to Spain, and wishes him luck; he asks if Maw would take a box with two or three tiny cedar trees for Sir W. William [unidentified] at Gibraltar, if he is going that way; Maw is lucky to have found the Menziesia [Rhododendron] as it used to be very scarce, though he has never visited the spot; he asks if Maw has sent his Spanish Draba to Boissier [Pierre Edmond Boissier, botanist]