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/1/141
Date
28 Mar 1875
Scope & content
Written from Kew. Manuscript
They must talk over the Crocus book when they meet; Maw’s offer is very kind but he fears that the expense will be great; he is sure that Reeve would withdraw any other work in favour of this one; it would need to be done by subscription and he wonders who would undertake the collection, as he does not have the time; he and his father have both done so previously and it was awful work; he notes what Maw says on business, rejoices, and will not mention it; Hanbury’s [Daniel Hanbury, botanist] death was a great shock, and he is the ninth dear friend he has lost this winter; he hopes Maw’s Rheum nobile is up, as theirs is; he wants Maw to take some of their Kerguelen cabbage [Pringlea antiscorbutica] plants; they lost hundreds of them in the summer but they are growing well now it is winter; they have a dozen good seedlings; he can also offer Leptinella plumosa, also Kerguelen; he will take Brian [Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker, his son] to Pendock on Saturday for a few days geologising with Mr Symonds [William Samuel Symonds, geologist, Hooker’s father-in-law]; Harriet [Harriet Anne Hooker, botanical artist, his daughter] arrived at Algiers [Algeria] utterly knocked up by a short but very rough sea passage, and will not go to Reunion[?] with them; Allma[?] [unidentified] and Strachey [Richard Strachey] will start about the 12th, and he and Maw will start on the evening of the 15th; he supposes he and Maw will pick them up at Marseilles [France]