Hooker (William Jackson 1785-1865). Autograph letter signed, 'W.J. Hooker', 31 March 1857, to his niece Mary Turner, telling in part of his meeting with Dr David Livingstone the day before, 'he is a most interesting person:- as modest and humble as he is clever and enterprising. I only wish he would keep off the subject of botany, for he calls every thing of that kind by the wrong name ... and he certainly is more at home among the birds and beasts than he is among the plants. Some of his anecdotes and adventures were very amusing:- their being lifted up in a canoe. for example, in a river, by a hippopotamus getting under the canoe and rising to the surface with it on his back - upsetting it and dousing the whole party into the water. This and much more will ... be related in the narrative he is now printing and which is happily in a very forward state. He works all day long on it; and only allows himself relaxation of an afternoon's end... ', 6 pp., tipped in to a volume with the original postmarked envelope, gilt-titled on spine 'Memoirs of Sir Wm. J. Hooker, Sir Francis Palgrave & T. Brighwen Esq.', containing approximately 12 further mostly printed offprints, obituaries and reviews relating to the three men, including a loosely inserted Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Manuscripts of the Late Sir Francis Palgrave... which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... , 20th Day of November 1862, stitched as issued, several other items loose or detached, contemporary half roan with gilt-titled spine, covers detached, small 4to (23 x 17 cm) (Qty: 1)
Hooker (William Jackson 1785-1865). Autograph letter signed, 'W.J. Hooker', 31 March 1857, to his niece Mary Turner, telling in part of his meeting with Dr David Livingstone the day before, 'he is a most interesting person:- as modest and humble as he is clever and enterprising. I only wish he would keep off the subject of botany, for he calls every thing of that kind by the wrong name ... and he certainly is more at home among the birds and beasts than he is among the plants. Some of his anecdotes and adventures were very amusing:- their being lifted up in a canoe. for example, in a river, by a hippopotamus getting under the canoe and rising to the surface with it on his back - upsetting it and dousing the whole party into the water. This and much more will ... be related in the narrative he is now printing and which is happily in a very forward state. He works all day long on it; and only allows himself relaxation of an afternoon's end... ', 6 pp., tipped in to a volume with the original postmarked envelope, gilt-titled on spine 'Memoirs of Sir Wm. J. Hooker, Sir Francis Palgrave & T. Brighwen Esq.', containing approximately 12 further mostly printed offprints, obituaries and reviews relating to the three men, including a loosely inserted Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Manuscripts of the Late Sir Francis Palgrave... which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... , 20th Day of November 1862, stitched as issued, several other items loose or detached, contemporary half roan with gilt-titled spine, covers detached, small 4to (23 x 17 cm) (Qty: 1)
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