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GB-110/JES/COR/21/75
Title
William Beeston Coyte, Ipswich, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
20 Nov 1788
Author(s)
William Beeston Coyte 1740-1810
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/21/75 from William Beeston Coyte, Ipswich, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (20 November 1788)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/21/75 from William Beeston Coyte, Ipswich, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (20 November 1788) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Coyte, William Beeston
Sent from:
Ipswich, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Sending present of game to Smith and Sir Joseph Banks. Intends to deliver in person, after Christmas, the mosses collected in local woods. Thanks for Smith's letter and sketch of "beautiful" 'Fuschia' at Kew, and for admittance as Associate of the Linnean Society. Received letter from Banks in response to the Snowdon mosses he sent. Intends to go to the Lake District or Switzerland next summer. Requests cutting of 'Thymus cephalotos' and seeds of 'Digitalis sceptrum'.
Letter date:
20 Nov 1788
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
21.131
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| 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. |
