Hooker, Dalton Joseph, botanist (1817-1911)

Material, mostly correspondence, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letter Sequence. 37 letters from Hooker, 4 letters to Hooker and biographical information.

1844-1911

42 items

Purchased from: R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); A Raustein, December 1927 (acc.46469) (although the entry in the accession register does not correspond to the item carrying this number and the item may thus have a different, unknown provenance); Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583), September 1930 (acc.56557 and 73067), January 1931 (acc.68115), March 1931 (accs.56468, 56471, 668133); Hodgson's, London, June 1931 (acc.80890); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.67460), November 1933 (acc.67472); Huscombe's, July 1931 (acc.67561 and 68176); Glendining, London, November 1931 (acc.67583), March 1932 (acc.67624), December 1934 (acc.67935), January 1935 (acc.67950 and 67964), April 1935 (acc.68595); Stone, 1941 (acc.92292); provenance details not recorded (acc.67430); nos. 30, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41 no accession details given; no.1 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

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