HOOKER (JOSEPH DALTON)

Part of the papers of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, with some of his uncle, Dawson William Turner, correspondents including Charles Lyell, Thomas Huxley, Rudolf Virchow, Richard Owen, William Rowan Hamilton and others

Part of the papers of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, with some of his uncle, Dawson William Turner, some 100 letters, cut signatures and photographs, comprising letters by Joseph Dalton Hooker himself (several letters, to his uncle, announcing a birth and discussing theories of education, to his first cousin Polly, regretting that he cannot spare her friend a plant – "I am sorry to say that in the matter of shrubs, & plants from Kew it is impossible. – We have no clearings-out such as we used to have when we first began to clothe the place", and other members of the family); most of the other letters addressed to Hooker, correspondents including Charles Lyell (thanking Hooker for his note which he has added to his preface – "They are as you can see not controversial. Huxley takes charge of it..."), Thomas Huxley, Rudolf Virchow ("...Ihre Nachrichten haben mich vergleich überrascht und herzlich gefreut. Ich bin demnuch bereit mit meine Frau die Gartfreundschaft des Herrn Doctor aufzusuchen und Ihre Mutter zer begrussen..."), Ferdinand von Mueller (from the Melbourne Botanical Gardens), Robert Bentley, John Tyndall, William Huggins, Warren De la Rue, John Herschel (to Longmans), William Crookes, James Joule, Edward Sabine, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, F.W. Hutton, John Lubbock, Albert Günther ("...My dear Hooker/ I consider it one of the highest honours I have been able to obtain, to be one of the Vice Presidents of the Royal Society..."), Henry Cole, William Armstrong, John Hawkshaw, Andrew Ramsay, Benjamin Brodie, John Prestwick, Charles Pritchard, Bernhard von Langenbeck, Richard Owen ("...I would have a 4-Wheeler ready to carry us to S. Kensington..."), G.B. Airy, George Allman, Oliver Lodge (to Dawson Turner Jr., 1922), Colonel Phipps, Secretary to Prince Albert (granting Sir William Hooker permission to walk in the grounds at Osborne), William Rowan Hamilton (to "My dear Lord Chancellor", promising [the Rev G.H.] Puckle a "copy of my Quarternions"), Bartholomew Price, George Stokes, J.J. Sylvester, Robert Swinhoe, the Middle Eastern traveller and scholar Gifford Palgrave (three, from Trebizond and elsewhere, to "Dear Uncle Dawson"), Henry Enfield Roscoe, and others; plus a carte-de-visite of Whitlock's photograph of Hooker and Huxley (head and shoulders), and a Sotheby catalogue of Hooker's library (1912), tipped onto large 4to album sheets, unbound