File BHH/2/11 - Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 7 August 1849

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/2-BHH/2/11

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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 7 August 1849

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  • 7th Aug 1849 (Creation)

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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he thanks Hodgson for sending books and paper. He thanks Hodgson also for care of his specimens and for the compliments on Hooker's book. He writes about his discoveries and his father's rules on dedications. He writes about the company at Darjeeling and at some length about Archibald Campbell. Postscript on the front of the letter asks Hodgson to send empty notebooks and steel pens from his desk for which he encloses the key. With accompanying envelope. Handwritten, 8 sides, dated 7 August 1849.

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