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GB-110/JES/COR/1/43
Title
James Anderson, 9 Bells Building, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, [London], to James Edward Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
6 Feb 1797
Author(s)
James Anderson 1739-1808
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/1/43 from James Anderson, 9 Bells Building, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, [London], to James Edward Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk] (6 February 1797)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Anderson, James
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Difficulties of training and educating Smith's "young friend", Mr Johnes, in agriculture. Disinclined to send him to Edinburgh or Glasgow as knowledge in philosophy "is of no use in life [and] serves to make a man conceited and dogmatical". Criticises those teachers who speculate on agriculture from a distance and relates his own treatise on the proper education for a farmer. Requests Smith's help in locating a former correspondent from whom he once received a sample of "Peruvian wool". Concern for the health of Miss Johnes. Has just received from Dr [James] Anderson in India a sample of wool of a "bright golden yellow"; had it been found near Colchis it "might have been supposed to be the golden fleece".
Letter date:
6 Feb 1797
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
1.71
Additional Information:
Note type | Note |
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Additional | Smith replied 7 Mar [1797] |
Finding Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |