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GB 891 BHH-BHH/2-BHH/2/22
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 23 September 1849
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- 23rd Sep 1849 (Creation)
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes that being "horridly hard up for somebody to talk to I take up my pen…" The weather has been indifferent with mist and snow and though he has ventured into Tibet twice has little further to add to his previous descriptions. Hooker continues to describe both the climate and the geography in which he finds himself and writes about possible future plans. Handwritten, 9 sides, with accompanying envelope, dated 23 September, 1849.
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- English