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JHC62

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
25 April 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.159-161, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Hooker Project

JHC63

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
25 April 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.162, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH describes the portrait Mr Tayler is painting of him. The scene is JDH’s camp in a forest after a supposed day of collecting in the snowy Himalaya mountains & features: JDH’s Lepcha Sirdar presenting him with a bunch of Dendrobium nobile; the Ghorkha [Gurkha], Havildar & Lepchas in their uniforms; JDH’s Bhotea dog; bamboos, ferns &rhododendrons. JDH also describes the combination of Thibetan [Tibetan]& English clothes he is wearing for the portrait, including a hat mounted with a silver pebble & peacock feather as marks of rank. Illustrated with a sketch of the hat.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-49-04-25

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 April 1849
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published precis of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 109-10
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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