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GB-110/JES/COR/18/79
Title
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
24 Jan 1794
Author(s)
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/18/79 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith (24 January 1794)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from:
Bungay, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Read Smith's "Tour"; never met with a book of the kind "so interesting & entertaining"; agreed with all of Smith's politics and has never seen the liberal passage of vol 3 p.145 [on "power combined with cruelty"] exceeded by any author. Examined punctuation of "Hortus Kewensis" and compared it with "Philosophia botanica", with which it "accurately agrees", but cannot approve it as it is contrary to all other authors and rules of punctuation, and cannot understand for what reason Linnaeus would invert the order of the comma and colon. Requests Sierra Leone coins.
Letter date:
24 Jan 1794
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.164
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1793). "A sketch of a tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787" London. Aiton, W, (1789). "Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew..." London: Printed for George Nicol. Linnaeus, C, (1751). "Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exemplis terminorum, observationibus rariorum, adjectis figuris aeneis." Stockholmiae: Apud Godofr. Kiesewetter. |
