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

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Scope & content: Written from Kew. Manuscript

He thanks Maw for the Crocus, Lithospermum and Linaria; Elwes sent the Crocus, which is similar to Crocus aerius but with a different bulb; he suggests a work on the genus Crocus would be ‘charming’ and wonders if Maw and Baker [John Gilbert Baker, botanist, keeper of the Kew Herbarium] could work together; he would gladly put all Gay’s [Claude Gay, botanist] drawings at Maw’s service for it; he plans to take Harriet [Harriet Anne Hooker, botanical artist, his daughter] to Algeria for a month in April, where Playfair [Robert Lambert Playfair, consul-general in Algeria] has been given leave to accompany them to the Aures Mountains; he asks if Maw will join them

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