From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
25 November 1842
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.121-127 & 134 & 136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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JDH writes that he is sending this note to his father, William Jackson Hooker, with 'Erebus' Seaman Richard Baxter, who has been invalided home. He asks WJH to assist Baxter if he asks. Baxter has been particularly kind to JDH, helping him when he was wet or cold. Baxter has not been in the Navy long enough to claim any benefits. He is not a drunk, his disease is 'organic'. JDH describes Baxter's physical appearance to WJH in a postscript.