You will I am sure be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kindly glad to hear that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>Goverment</sic> <corr>Government</corr> </choice> have been pleased <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to recognize my <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Father</persName>’s & my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />services, & have at last granted <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />me a position <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">of</del> <add place="across">at</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740">Kew</placeName>, appointing <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />me Assistant Director of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4">Royal Gardens</orgName> (to my <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Father</persName>), <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with a salary of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="400" unit="pfund_sterling">£ 400</measure> a year. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />This is I need hardly say a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />matter of great rejoicing to us <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />all, as it affords hopes to my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Father</persName> that I may eventually <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />succeed him, should my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />services be approved; & for <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the present it ensures me <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap quantity="1" unit="words" reason="covered" /></del> <add place="across">the</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />enjoyment <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">for the</del> <add place="superlinear">(as also in</add> </subst> future<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="intralinear">)</add> of an <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />income that enables me to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />devote my whole time to<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1v" />science. It is now many <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />years since my <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Father</persName> has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been vainly endeavoring to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />procure any fixed position <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for me, in connection with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4">Royal Gardens</placeName>, but except <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the shape of occasional <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />grants for special services I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have never received any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />support<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> from the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4">Gardens</placeName>, in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which I have been so long <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />engaged. And now I am going to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />beg a great favor of you & hope <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that you will pardon me if <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my request is unreasonable, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& that is that you would <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />send to my <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">wife</persName> a portrait <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of yourself to hang up in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />our Drawing room. We are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />quite envious <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">&</del> <add place="across">of</add> </subst> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">the one you have sent to</add> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015345 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11671350X"><choice> <abbr>Col.</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> Sabine</persName>’s <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& if <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">I</del> <add place="across">we</add> </subst> could have procured one<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2r" />without troubling you we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should have done so. Perhaps <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />if you can spare one you will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kindly write Mrs <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">Hooker</persName>’s name <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on it, that she may have a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />memorial of you herself. I have searched in vain for <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any more information about <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi>; & for experiments <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />upon its vitality in a basin of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water. I shall however endeavor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to settle the point by having <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />some specimens brought home <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in a bucket of salt water, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sent to the salt-water Vivarium <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H1884631">Regent’s Park Zoological <lb />Gardens</orgName>. I cannot see any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficulty in supposing that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="algae">Alga</name> maintains an inde<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />pendent existence, floating as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />well as attached, as I know <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Fucus servatus</name></hi>, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Fucus nodosus">nodosus</name></hi>,<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />& <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Macrocystis pyrifera</name></hi> do. The <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>Goverment</sic> <corr>Government</corr> </choice> have been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very liberal to <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4">Kew</orgName> this year, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />voting ample sums to the support <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">l</del> <add place="across">L</add> </subst>ive plants, Museum, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">l</del> <add place="across">L</add> </subst>ibrary & Herbarium; also <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1800" unit="pfund_sterling">£ 1800</measure> for building a new conser<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />vatory & <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="3000" unit="pfund_sterling">£ 3000</measure> for a new <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Museum; this, with my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />appointment, was quite unexpected, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />considering the extent of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8" corresp="#aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649" type="editorialNote">War</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649" corresp="#ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8" type="editorial">Hiermit ist der Krimkrieg von 1853 bis 1856 gemeint.</note> estimate especially. I shall have the pleasure <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of sending to you next week <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the first volume of the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58" corresp="#cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a" type="editorialNote">„Flora <lb />Indica“</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a" corresp="#a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I.</note> in which you will find <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8" corresp="#b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5" type="editorialNote">sketch of the Physical Geography <lb />of the whole area, & of each province</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5" corresp="#dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I, S. 83–258: "Sketch of the Physical Features and Vegetation of the Provinces of India".</note>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D.<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Thomson</persName> & myself. Mrs <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">Hooker</persName> desires her most <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />respectful remembrances & regrets that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />she has never yet seen you – she & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3" corresp="#f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17" type="editorialNote">children</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17" corresp="#a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3" type="editorial">Der Sohn <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H6906554">William Henslow</persName> wurde 1853 und die Tochter <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9813752">Harriet Anne</persName> wurde 1854 geboren.</note> are all well. 