[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] Macfadyen provides Hooker with a detailed account of the illness and death of his son [William Dawson Hooker] while in Kingston. He explains the symptoms Hooker exhibited upon his arrival in Kingston and the subsequent nature of the symptoms he began exhibiting after returning from a trip to Barbican, a site a few miles from Kingston. These symptoms included black vomiting, fever and delirium. Macfadyen was assisted by Dr Bancroft in the treatment of William Dawson and indicates that the patient was aware of the fatal nature of his disease [Yellow Fever]. He provides details of Hooker’s final moments, during which William Dawson asked after both his mother and father, and he compliments the young man’s character. He further reassures Hooker of how much his son was liked by all those who attended him and concludes by promising to write again. [For Bancroft’s account of William Dawson Hooker’s death see letter folio 2.] Page 1 of 7.