From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
