Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/144
Date
3 Apr 1875
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He is so thrown out that he does not know what else to do but not go to Algiers [Algeria], yet he badly wants an outing; he will write to Maw at Mentone [Menton, France] on Friday 23, which Maw will likely receive on Monday morning; he asks Maw to arrange everything as if he were not going so as not to cause any trouble; he thanks Maw for his offer about Harriet [Harriet Anne Hooker, botanical artist, his daughter], and suggests they all meet and come home together; he has no plan except to get away sometime before the end of the month; Tulipa clusiana is figured in the ‘Botanical Magazine’; he has just returned from Lady D. Nevill’s [Dorothy Nevill, horticulturist] most interesting garden