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Please cite as “JHC587,” in Ɛpsilon: The Joseph Dalton Hooker Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/hooker/letters/JHC587
JDH describes to Sir John Hay Drummond Hay the struggle his party has had with the authorities, to get suitable housing in Marocco [Marrakech]. He gives a detailed timeline of events from their reception in the city by a Mr Hunot, formerly of Messrs. Perry & Co. of Liverpool, to their finally getting assigned the house previously occupied by [Moses] Montifiore the following day. He gives the date they took up their quarters as 5 Aug but this should read 5 May. The initial date of the letter on page 1 has been corrected, in pencil, from 4 Aug to 4 May. The Montifiore house was only secured for JDH by the intervention of the Viceroy after Ben Daoud tried to make them stay in houses that were too small or dirty, against the instructions of the Sultan. They spent the night camping near the great mosque, under the protection of soldiers supplied by the more hospitable El Grauoi.
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