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GB-110/JES/COR/4/107
Title
Edward Forster, St Helen's Place, [London], to James Edward Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
27 Aug 1811
Author(s)
Edward Forster 1765-1849
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/4/107 from Edward Forster, St Helen's Place, [London], to James Edward Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 August 1811)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/4/107 from Edward Forster, St Helen's Place, [London], to James Edward Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk] (27 August 1811) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Forster, Edward
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Requests specimen of foliage of 'Ulmus campestris', following Benjamin [Meggot Forster's] sending him Dutch elm, believes may be Willdenow's 'Ulmus suberosa' and remarks that Smith's 'Ulmus suberosa' and 'Ulmus gabra' are often the same. Asks to delay publication of the 'Scrophularia' he sent [James] Sowerby as it was not wild, intends to send new specimen. Asks for specimen of 'Salix glauca'. Postscript that Lord Moira believes it impossible for the Prince Regent to be anything but a patron.
Letter date:
27 Aug 1811
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
4.182
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| 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. |
