Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/13/38
Title Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, London
Letter date 21 Jun 1815
Author(s) Sir Thomas Gery, 7th baronet Cullum 1741-1831
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/13/38 from Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, London (21 June 1815)

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Item Type: Document
From: Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Pleased by Smith's report of the recovery of Dr [Martin] Davy, the signing of [William] Webb's proposal certificate to become a FLS, and Smith's intention to visit Bury. Webb is considering accepting gift of the rectory of Fornham, [Suffolk], from the Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge, though Cullum thinks it inadvisable to give up all future College prospects.
Has not seen many plants: 'Genista filosa' has been flowering for a month, 'Veronica verna' in seed, 'Seleranthus perennis' and 'Osmunda lunaria' "in full perfection". Impatient for first volume of [William] Kirby's "Introduction to Entomology". Lady Cullum has curiosities to show Smith and will be delighted if Smith has seen the "pig-faced lady", of which she has a print placed opposite the print of the "hog-faced servant" painting at Winchester College ["The Trusty Servant", painted by John Hoskins in 1579].

Letter date: 21 Jun 1815
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 13.74
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Related MaterialKirby, W, and Spence, W, (1815-1826). "An introduction to entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects..." London: Longman.