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Document number: 00134
Date: Jul 1816
Dating: date based on 00706, 00712, 05271
Watermark: 1815
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HOOKER William Jackson
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 14th July 2010

Dear Sir

I am sorry that the enclosed is the only specimen of Encalypta streptocarpa I have with me in Town. On my return to the country I shall be happy to send you better ones accompanied by other Mosses: & in the mean while I have written to my friend Mr Turner <1> to beg he will send you a copy of his Musc. Hibernica, <2> which I am sure he will have pleasure in doing.

I remain, dear Sir Your obdt friend & Servt
W. J. Hooker.

Fladong’s Hotel, <3> Oxford street.

Notes:

1. Dawson Turner (1775–1858), botanist, author & banker.

2. Dawson Turner, Muscologić Hibernicć Spicilegium, (Yarmouth: 1804).

3. At 144 Oxford Street, London.