Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith, the New Hummums, Covent Garden, [London]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/15/130
Title Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith, the New Hummums, Covent Garden, [London]
Letter date 21 May 1802
Author(s) Mary Watson- Wentworth 1735-1804
Number of Pages 8

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GB-110/JES/COR/15/130 from Mary Watson-Wentworth to James Edward Smith, the New Hummums, Covent Garden, [London] (21 May 1802)

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

Invites Smith to visit her the next time he is in London. Apologises for long delay in correspondence, caused by her "nervous disaffection" and ill health, and had meant to respond to Smith's letter congratulating her on "the blessing of Peace". Sorry to hear Smith's old complaint has returned.
Proposes that a toast be made to her late husband, [Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782), prime minister], at the Linnean Society Anniversary meeting on 24 May, as his birthday was also 24 May and he was a "rising botanist of great promise" and "a most attach'd disciple of Linnaeus". Thanks for present of dried fruit and biscuits, which have now regained their "peculiar taste & good quality" following "those cruel times of real, or pretended scarcity", though does not believe that any flour have yet or perhaps ever will return to same quality as before. Praises the sermon Smith sent her, which reminds her of something in [James] Saurin [(1677-1730), French preacher]; details of a sermon she will send in return. Apologises for legibility of letter as her eyelid complaint has returned.

Letter date: 21 May 1802
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 15.247
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.