Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
Sent from:
Liverpool, Lancashire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Pleased by addition Smith has made to the [Liverpool Botanic Garden] herbarium. A Botanic Garden in Glasgow is on the verge of being established, with a public subscription of £4000 to be raised, to which the College has given £2000; delighted by spread of botanic gardens to large towns and considers possibility of same in Norwich. Thanks for gift of Smith's "Compendium [florae Britannicae]"; keen to see his "historical & critical" article in [Rees'] "Encyclopedia".
[Robert] Southey [(1774-1843), poet and reviewer] is a "miserable figure" and unsure whether his letter to [William] Smith "excites more pity or disgust" [after Smith made critical remarks on Southey's youthful play "Wat Tyler", which had just been published against his will]; the world "too indulgent" of "these converts who play tricks with their personal identity"; praises Smith's rebuke. His daughter Jane fully recovered.
Letter date:
7 May 1817
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.227
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 14 [May 1817] |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, and Hoffmann, G F, (1816). "Compendium florae Britannicae." Londinum: Longman, 2nd ed.
Southey, R, (1817). "A Letter to William Smith, Esq., M.P. from Robert Southey [on occasion of certain strictures made by W. Smith in the House of Commons on the writings of Southey." London; please note not available from Linnean Society Library but available in British Library. |
| 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. |
