From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
4 April 1882
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding a misunderstanding about the building of the Marianne North Gallery at RBG Kew by [John] Lessels & [James] Fergusson. Specifically regarding the vestibule, veranda & some water. JDH also criticizes The Treasury's handling of the matter. He has enjoyed a visit to Barton, he likes his host at Morton Hall [George Duckett Berney] whom he describes as: 'a liberal conservative & enlightened man amongst a neighbourhood sunk in Torydom'. JDH also comments on the decline of farming in the area [Norfolk].