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Document number: 9162
Date: 04 Dec 1866
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: OLIVER Daniel
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

4 Decr 1866

Dear Sir/

There will be no difficulty whatever I believe as to delivery if the Dumasia be forwarded by Great Western rail, addressed to

Dr Hooker <1>
R. Gardens
Kew

Immediate.

We shall be much obliged to you for a living specimen.

I remain faithfully yours

Daniel Oliver.

H. Fox Talbot, Esq &c

Envelope:

H. Fox Talbot, Esq
Lacock Abbey
Wilts

Notes:

1. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), who had succeeded his father as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1865.

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