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GB 891 BHH-BHH/2-BHH/2/8
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 18 March [1849]
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- 18th Mar [1849] (Creation)
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes he has had a kind welcome from Hodgson's cousin and wife. Hodgson's cousin is finding it difficult healthwise in the climate complaining of headaches all the time, though they have a "nice house and garden and a pretty Bengal landscape all around". Hooker hopes to reach [Kishnagu] tomorrow morning. He has had a note from Colville. Hooker had seen "old Perry for two hours near [Titulgah]. He is sore afflicted". Hooker writes of others he has met and incidents concerning them. Handwritten, 6 sides, dated 18 March [1849].
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- English