Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/15/91
Title Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith
Letter date 20 Jul 1790
Author(s) Mary Watson- Wentworth 1735-1804
Number of Pages 6

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GB-110/JES/COR/15/91 from Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith (20 July 1790)

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Item Type: Document
From: Wentworth, Mary Watson-
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Glad Smith has returned from Norfolk in good health. The leaves of her two 'Portlandia' differ from sketch in Smith's letter, being perfectly equal at the base, and cannot be certain about 'Hedera'.
Smith mistaken about Mr Wallen's sending of 'Euphorbia' and 'Hedera'; 'E. wallenia' came living from him in 1778, but in memoranda of other Jamaican plants at the same time there is no mention of 'Hedera', although there are several without names. Dr King transcribing her opinions on it and asks Smith to postpone printing his article about the plant till next week. If Smith visits next Sunday he could see 'Lagerstroemia' and Botany Bay plant in flower, the first to do so since they came over.
Memorandum, in different hand [probably Dr King], on the introduction of 'Hedera' to England, from the recollections of gardener at Wentworth, [Yorkshire], who had been at Wimbledon on its arrival, a few years before 1780.

Letter date: 20 Jul 1790
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 15.169
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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.