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Sender: Dalton, Marianne
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Nov [n.y.]
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Category: 17c2 Female
Note: James Dalton's daughter, concerning her "conchological amusements" and asking his advice on the identification of some shells she is sending. Draft reply to her letter on one of the pages from one of James Sowerby's sons.
Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 32
Date(s): 15 Feb 1802 - 11 Nov 1815
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: James Dalton, M.A., F.L.D., Yorkshire naturalist,was also rector of Copgrove near Knaresborough and then of Croft near Darlington. The letters to James Sowerby, naturalist and artist,were sent to his home in Lambeth and contain references to Dalton's wide ranging interests: fungi, birds, lichens, mosses and insects. Dalton orders a microscope from Sowerby and obtains many specimens for him.
Sender: Dalton, Frederick Thomas
Recipient: Shorter, Clement King
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Mar 1911
Location: BC. Shorter correspondence
Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, George Brettingham
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Apr 1803
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Second son of John Sowerby and an artist and conchologist.
Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, James Carle
Letters: 2
Date(s): 20 Nov 1822 - 19 Nov 1824
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Written after the death of James Sowerby Senior
Sender: Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Recipient: Clodd, Edward
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 Apr 1892
Location: BC Clodd
Sender: Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Recipient: Clodd, Edward
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 May 1892
Location: BC Clodd. In H.W. Bates, "The Naturalist on the River Amazons", 1892 [p.[v]]
Sender: Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Nov 1874
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Bentham, George
Recipient: [Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 May [----]
Location: BC Misc. letters 2
Note: Addressed "My dear Joseph". Probably Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sender: Fergusson, James
Recipient: Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Mar 1869
Location: BC Miscellaneous letters
Note: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist and traveller.
Sender: Kingsley, Charles
Recipient: Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Oct 1869
Location: BC Misc. letters 2