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/1/171
Date
10 Apr 1878
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for the narcissi; Harriet [Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer, botanical artist, his daughter] is laid up as she gave birth to a little girl yesterday, but is doing all right; he would otherwise have asked her to draw a couple of the narcissi; Oliver [Daniel Oliver, librarian of the Kew Herbarium, proposed as Hooker’s successor as editor of ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’] and Reeve [Lovell Reeve, publisher of ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’] have made no arrangement for Fitch’s [Walter Hood Fitch, outgoing botanical artist for ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’] successor yet; he asks if Maw has the history of the slave who travelled with them from Mogador [Essaouira, Morocco] to Marocco [Marrakesh, Morocco]; neither he nor Ball [John Ball, botanist] has it, and they would like it for the journal, if Maw has it and would not object to lending it