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1 sheet of paper
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1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.
The letter is undated, but based on the content is believed to have been written c. 1951
Transcription
British Museum (Natural History)
Cromwell Road
London SW7[n.d.]
Dear Hicks,
Thanks for your card. Delighted to hear you are in town. I cannot manage evenings, I fear, as I live out at Rickmansworth, but any day that suits you will suit me at the Museum (Except March 21st and 22nd ) Drop in any day you are free (not Sundays) about noon and we will have lunch somewhere, and talk over old days. I am working out our plants by degrees. You got a lot of very good things in East Bhutan, and your material is absolutely first class.
I was to have gone to Nepal this summer but it fell through owning to political trouble. I am not greatly disappointed. I am getting to old for these treks.
Yours sincerely,
F. Ludlow
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English
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Latin
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written in cursive
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1 sheet of blue paper, written in ink
Condition: crease running horizontally across the center of the sheet. minor foxing.
approx. dimensions: 132x178mm
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- Bhutan
- Asia » Asia, South » Nepal
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- Hicks, John Herbert (Subject)
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English
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Latin
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Created: 17 Sept 2026, C. Kemnitz