Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 15 August 1849

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Letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he reflects on his sadness in losing his dog who, in a bad habit of running on ahead of him, had fallen into a river. He asks that Hodgson send the news to Campbell as he cannot bear to write about it twice. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 15 August 1849.