Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Spragg, Harvey
Sent from:
Brighton, Sussex
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Hammersmith, Middlesex
Summary:
Thanks for Smith's letter. Laments death of [James] Lee [(1715-1795), gardener] and loss of his friendly communications. Pleased that Smith's trip to Wales was a success, believes it will be "for the general benefit of science" for Smith to have similar opportunities. The negligence of his gardener has forced him to give up cultivating stove plants and convert his stove into a forcing house for grapes and peaches. The stove plants have been sent to a cousin in Yorkshire but has reserved for himself 'Strelitzia', 'Pulmeria rubra', 'Xylophila latifolia', and 'Portlandia', offers to send any to friends of Smith; half of the 'Strelitzia' is already in Lady de Clifford's stove [Sophia Southwell]. Lady Rockingham [Mary Watson-Wentworth] recovering only very slowly from her illness, believes it originated from repeated "injudicious" bleedings several months ago.
Letter date:
11 Sep 1795
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.115
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 23 [Sep 1795] |
| 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. |
| Related Material | Smith took the other half of the 'Strelitzia', see Spragg's letter JES/COR/9/60. |
