James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/19/74
Title James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date 1 Jul 1803
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/19/74 from James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (1 July 1803)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: Liverpool, Lancashire
To: Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location: Lowestoft, Suffolk
Summary:

Approves of Pleasance's arrangements as to the cook, Betty Laws; a joke about her size confounding Bonaparte's invasion plans. Account of his journey from London to Liverpool, via Northampton, Lichfield, Stafford, and Chester. On arrival in Liverpool received by his old friend Thomas Taylor, where he is staying, with Taylor's nephew, Meadows. Refreshing air of Liverpool. Delighted with [William] Roscoe; opinion of his person and character. Promised 100 subscribers to his lectures, paying 2 guineas each; after journey expects to clear £180. Has spent £70 on books of [Edmund] Davall; his library sold "very cheap"; lists books purchased. Leaves it to Pleasance to decide on being godmother to "little Wilkinson", though he dislikes "such ties". [John] Koster, a friend of Correa's, thinks the war ill-judged, and that Correa was made insane by his persecutors in Lisbon. His lectures.

Letter date: 1 Jul 1803
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 19.167
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.