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GB-110/JES/COR/17/115
Title
William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London
Letter date
21 May 1818
Author(s)
William Roscoe 1753-1831
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/17/115 from William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London (21 May 1818)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/17/115 from William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London (21 May 1818) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
Sent from:
Liverpool, Lancashire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Read Smith's Cambridge pamphlet with "equal impatience & pleasure"; believes it will eventually gain him the position [of botany professor]. Transcribes notice for the "Liverpool Mercury" announcing Smith's upcoming course of lectures on botany and vegetable physiology at Liverpool Royal Institution; requests further details from Smith; the subscription for non-proprieters will be two guineas. Sorry to hear Lady [Pleasance] Smith will not be accompanying Smith to Liverpool.
Letter date:
21 May 1818
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.233
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 26 May [1818] |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, and Monk, J H [1818]. "[A review of] Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship, by Sir James Edward Smith ... [And] A vindication of the University of Cambridge from the reflections of ... Smith ... by ... James Henry Monk". |
| 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. |
