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From F. H. Hooker   13 September [1865]

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J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;

he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.

Author:  Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 235–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4893

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  • 1860 , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 1 October 1863 ). J.  D.  Hooker succeeded his father, William Jackson Hooker , as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He took up his appointment on 1 November 1865 ( Allan 1967 , p.  211; R.  Desmond  1999 , p.  221). John and Ellen Frances Lubbock
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