Letters to Hooker from various correspondents

Letters to Hooker from various correspondents including James Backhouse (1794-1869), with the letter is a cutting advertising a journal of a tour of Iceland in 1809 by Hooker and a memoir of Hooker from The Imperial Magazine, May 1834 (no. 2); Dawson Turner F.R.S. (1775-1858) British banker, botanist and antiquary, Hooker's father-in-law (nos. 4 and 5); William Gourlie (1815-1856), botanist (nos. 10 and 11); Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward F.R.S. (1791-1868), botanist (no. 16); Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886) thanking him for cuttings of plants and recommending the garden of a Mr Barren (nos. 21 and 22); Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880) (no. 33).

c.1812-1865

46 items

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts