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GB-110/JES/COR/16/5
Title
Mariamne Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
2 Nov 1795
Author(s)
Mariamne Johnes 1784-1811
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/16/5 from Mariamne Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith (2 November 1795)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/16/5 from Mariamne Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith (2 November 1795) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Johnes, Mariamne
Sent from:
Hafod, Cardiganshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Received Smith's letter. Weather is cold and stormy. Has sent with her father to London Smith's microscope and a small box of insects. Dr [James] Anderson has found a "very pretty spot" for her flower garden.
Note pasted onto recto of second folio apparently sent separately: also sending with her father the great tortoiseshell butterfly mentioned in earlier letter, a curious beetle, and a "very pretty" insect found in broom tree. Her mother asks Smith to send some of the moss which they make "fireworks of in the playhouse as Sir Joseph Banks says there is some here".
Letter date:
2 Nov 1795
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
16.34
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 11 [Nov 1795] |
