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JHC725

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1883
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 97, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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JHC726

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 October 1883
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 98, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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JHC727

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1883
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 99, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC728

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 December 1883
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 100, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC729

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 January 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 101, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC730

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 February 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 102, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC732

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 March 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 103, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC733

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 March 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 104, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC734

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 April 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 105, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC735

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 May 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 106, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC736

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 107, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC737

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 August 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 108, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC738

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 August 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 109, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC739

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 September 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 110, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC740

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 November 1884
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 111, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC178

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 February 1885
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f73-74, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray what it cost to send a copy of GENERA [PLANTARUM] to Bessey [Herbarium], Nebraska. He would welcome more orders to cover the costs of reprinting. Affairs of [George] Bentham [GB] are not yet settled, 'Miss W.' should deal with her Uncle's 'intentions' incl. debts to Societies. JDH will miss GB & his help with ICONES [PLANTARUM]. He mentions a caster belonging to Sir Samuel [Bentham]. JDH cannot travel with Gray but he may be able to visit him in Boston after retiring. JDH is always too busy to get away, [William Thiselton] Dyer does a great deal but cannot take over all Hooker's work & has fallen behind with the 1883 report. Synonyms make nomenclature for the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE increasingly hard. Mentions the ongoing 'McGilvray affair' & the deterioration of his sister Maria McGilvray. [Henry Ashburton] Newman & Margaret [Greene Newman nee McGilvray] have gone to California to start an agricultural school, Bessy & Tom [F. McGilvray] may go too, Tom is currently in Canada. JDH's sister Bessy [Elizabeth Evans Lombe nee Hooker] is still ill & her husband [Thomas Robert Evans] Lombe worries for her. Willy [William Henslow Hooker] has failed to pass for surgeon. Symonds is at 'The Camp' [in Sunningdale]. JDH's wife [Hyacinth Hooker] named their new baby Richard, JDH thinks the child has inherited his long head & compares him to a Chinook [Chenook] Indian. Joey [Joseph Symonds Hooker] follows the baby around like a puppy. Mentions [Everard Ferdinand] Im Thurn ascending Roraima, [Sir Henry Hamilton] Johnston's Kilimanjaro collections, & a portrait of Gray. Discusses his work on Indian Polygona, referring to Meissner's work, Amblygonon & Persicaria. GB has left JDH the copyright of his BRITISH FLORA, JDH has concerns about producing a new edition. Gray may meet Morris at New Orleans. Reports that his uncle Dawson Turner, a charitable eccentric, has died of Erysipilas. His Aunt Ellen of Chester is the only one left from that branch of the family.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC179

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 April 1885
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.75, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

[This letter is incomplete and bears no signature, but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.] JDH has received a letter from Asa Gray about his travels with his wife [Jane Loring Gray]. He hopes California will be good for the Gray's health, he & his wife Hyacinth Hooker hope to visit the Gray's in America in the autumn. Hyacinth is recovering well from childbirth & the baby [Richard Symonds Hooker] is healthy apart from the after effects of vaccination. Gray's account of Mexico & Cypresses made JDH jealous. JDH discusses arrangements he is making over the estate of the deceased George Bentham, including personal possessions such as the correspondence of Jeremy & Sir Samuel Bentham, some unopened. JDH is working on THE FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA part twelve covering Anacardiaceae. He has completed Aristolochiaceae & is now doing the difficult genus of Piperaceae, in which many of Miquel & De Candolle's species must be assigned as 'unknowable'. He notes that Polygonum was a hard task & that P. virginianum grows in the Himalayas. William Thiselton-Dyer is managing the garden work so JDH deals with the arboretum as well as the scientific work. Nobody has been appointed to the Glasgow Chair [of Botany]. He explains some controversy over the fact McNab was initially appointed by Government before Balfour had even resigned, at the expense of other candidates such as Bower & Ward. JDH thinks the botnaical results of the Kilimanjaro Expedition are disappointing he hopes for better from Everard im Thurn's ascent of Roraima. JDH reports that his sister Maria McGIlvray has recovered from illness. MR Newman has opened a farming school in San Francisco.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC180

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 May 1885
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.76-77, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has received Asa Gray's letter from St Louis & is glad to hear he & his wife are healthier than in Mexico. JDH suggests he should go to Vancouver with the Grays. JDH reports on how things are at 'The Camp' [in Sunningdale]: the Symmonds are staying there, the Hawthorn & birch foliage is beautiful but the oak, ash & chestnut trees are coming into leaf late due to a cold spring. JDH is currently living at Kew & working on the Indian Flora, THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE & various committees. JDH refused the Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society & the Marquis of Lorne now has the post. Discusses management of the Linnean Society incl. lack of a Botanical Officer: [John] Lubbock is doing a bad job as President, [William] Thiselton-Dyer would be the best man for the job but does not want it, nor does JDH. Discusses Huxley's health & retirement. Frankland also to retire. Tells Gray what his children are doing: Charles Paget Hooker has given up his Cottishall [medical] practice & is engaged to a niece of [Thomas Robert Evans] Lombe's, Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker [BHHH] is done at the copper mine, Harriet Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker's health is improved, according to [Antoine Francis] Marmontel Grace Ellen Hooker excels in music at the Conservatorie de Paris, Reginald Hawthorn Hooker is doing a Bachelor of Sciences, Joseph Symonds Hooker & Richard Symonds Hooker progress. JDH has finished Indian Polygona & is working on Myristica. Discusses a letter from [Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff re. a supposed love affair between BHHH & one of the Klustines. Mentions that Bentham's sister was engaged to a Klustine & [George] Bentham [GB] himself jilted a Mademoiselle Dax for Laura Carr who in turn married a Mr Rolfe instead & later Lord Cranworth. JDH has inherited GB's autobiography & mass of Bentham family correspondence, he has been employing Miss Wallich to sort it but is not impressed with her. JDH mentions the health of his sisters: [Elizabeth] Lombe & Maria [McGilvray].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC741

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 June 1885
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 112, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC742

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 June 1885
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 113, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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