Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, Holkham Hall, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/3/89
Title Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, Holkham Hall, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 16 Apr [1819]
Author(s) Elizabeth Wilhelmina Spencer-Stanhope 1795-1873
Number of Pages 6

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GB-110/JES/COR/3/89 from Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, Holkham Hall, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (16 April 1819)

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Item Type: Document
From: Spencer-Stanhope, Elizabeth Wilhelmina
Sent from: Norfolk
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's "truly admirable pamphlet", pleased by the mention of her opal but most pleased by the moderate refutation of Smith's detractors, Professor South and the Quarterly Review. Especially pleased with the third chapter and 97th page of the last chapter.
[Letter incomplete: sections cropped, presumed destroyed]

Letter date: 16 Apr [1819]
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 3.16
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Finding AidsDawson, 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.