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GB 891 BHH-BHH/2-BHH/2/24
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 4 October 1849
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- 4th Oct 1849 (Creation)
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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes of his pleasure in receiving Hodgson's letters and how he is now hastening to reply to Hodgson's of the 22nd. He writes concerning his and others' impressions of Tibet and its accessibility; of the geography that he has encountered. He includes a sketch to show the true bearing of two ridges he has explored. Handwritten, 12 sides, with accompanying envelope, dated 4 October 1849.
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- English