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/1/103
Date
31 Dec 1871
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He sends Maw and family the compliments of the season; he is glad to hear that the Jew’s Cliff [Djorf el Youdi] fossil is both a new species and a new genus; he recalls the rock as a marl, but is not certain; he wonders if there is any relation between the Miocene beds of Marocco [Morocco] and any Tertiary beds in the islands; he is frustrated he made no close observations there, but was busy botanising; he is curious about the Caughley ware; Maw once gave Mrs Hooker a blue and white teacup of Caughley ware; Carstensen [Frederick Carstensen, consul at Mogador, later Essaouira, Morocco] has had a bad paralytic stroke at Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco], but is better and has gone to Mogador [Essaouira], and has written home asking for the vice consulate at the Canaries; Drummond Hay [Robert Drummond Hay, British minister resident at Mogador, later Essaouira] has recommended G.P. Hunot [George Pierre Hunot, British vice consul at Safi, Morocco] for a vice consulate; he is forwarding Maw the letter, which he is to return; he has a letter from Mr White [Horace Philips White, British consul at Tangier], who is pleased with the plants he sent him, and another from F. Rogers [Freeman Rogers, who provided translations of Moorish fables for Hooker’s eventual book] in America with more stories; he also received one from Mrs Carstensen hoping that Ball [John Ball, botanist] will exert himself at the Colonial Office on behalf of her husband; he encloses Hunot’s letter and asks for it to be returned [enclosure not present]; he asks if Maw would like to see either of the others; Hunot has since sent the seeds of the Lr[?] Arau[?] [?Araucaria], which are the fragments of the cone of the plant they know; he would be pleased to get a specimen of Maw’s India glazed ware