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The Joseph Dalton Hooker Collection
The Joseph Dalton Hooker Correspondence Project at Kew is making available online the personal and scientific correspondence of the botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ Kew from 1865-1885. The project was conceived by staff of The University of Sussex and Kew's Library, Art and Archive department and began as a partnership between Kew and the University of Sussex's Centre for World Environmental History. It has been made possible by support from the Stevenson Family Charitable Trust. Letter summaries can be searched through Ɛpsilon, with links to images and transcriptions at the project site at Kew (https://www.kew.org/explore-our-collections/correspondence-collections/joseph-hooker-collections).
An undated letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley arranging the details of Berkeley's forth coming visit to Hooker at Kew.
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Single page letter to Babington from Joseph Hooker.
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JDH has received letters from Sir William Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] & Daniel Morris. JDH is still ill with bronchitis, it is recommended he travel to the seaside. JDH is glad that WTTD's party [for garden employees] was a success. JDH has seen the death notice of [Ernest Staint-Charles] Cosson, whom in 1886 promised to donate his herbarium to RBG Kew. JDH does not know of any accounts of Fredericksborg Gardens but suggests that [Anders Sandoe] Oersted could have written something & that WTTD could also check the library for publications by Danish botanists, as listed in old botanical directories, & consult Lange[?]. JDH compliments F. Oliver's report on 'Nowackia' but corrects that Averrhoa is not a Leguminosae & bemoans the poor systematic botany. JDH describes Nathaniel Ridley's habit of sending badly prepared scraps of specimens, illustrations & descriptions of orchids [from Singapore]. Ridley is not knowledgeable about orchids but often sends new species of them, bad as the specimens are. JDH notes that he is informing Morris that Fawcett[?] & the Cooper's hill men are to visit JDH.
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A single page letter from Sir Joseph Hooker to William Erasmus Darwin.
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Single sheet letter to William Mitten.
Seven page long letter from Hooker to William Mitten
A one page letter to William Mitten from Sir Joseph Hooker
One page letter over one folio from Sir Joseph Hooker to William Mitten.
This is a two page letter from Hooker to William Mitten.
A small two page letter to William Mitten
Letter sent on a 'Tuesday' from Joseph Hooker to William Mitten
A four page letter over one folio from Joseph Hooker
Four page letter from Sir Joseph to William Mitten.
A small letter over 2 pages with black edging, from Sir Joseph to William Mitten
Four page letter on light blue paper from Hooker to Mitten.
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