Dorjiling [Darjeeling]
April 20/ [18]50
Dear Father
Here are some more of the Larch seeds. Please send the two little packets to Lindley with my best regards.
Those I planted here are all growing. The Bot[anic] Garden Calcutta

seedlings were all damping off when I left on the 8th of this month.
I start for Sylhet via Dulalgunge (below Titalyah) Malda & Dacca [Dhaka] by boat all the way to Pundua.
Thomson goes with me he is all well

& hearty
Your aff[ectionate] son | Jos D Hooker [signature]
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