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GB-110/JES/COR/23/20
Title
Thomas Charles Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, London
Letter date
22 Jul 1784
Author(s)
Thomas Charles Hope 1766-1844
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/23/20 from Thomas Charles Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, London (22 July 1784)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/23/20 from Thomas Charles Hope, Edinburgh, to James Edward Smith, 10 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, London (22 July 1784) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Hope, Thomas Charles
Sent from:
Edinburgh
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Congratulates Smith on acquisition of Linnaean collections; speculates on their worth. Requests copies of works by Hedwig and [Arthur] Broughton. His growing herbarium. Physical Society laid foundation stone of a new Hall. Smith's Society [Edinburgh Natural History Society] is become "by no means inconsiderable" owing to number of respectable members; anticipating seeing Smith in Edinburgh.
Letter date:
22 Jul 1784
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
23.41
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Broughton, A, (1782). "Enchiridion botanicum; complectens characteres genericos et specificos plantarum per Insulas Britannicas sponte nascentium..." Londinum: Robinson. Hedwig, J, (1782). "Fundamentum historiae naturalis muscorum frondosorum ... Pars 1(-11)." Lipsiae: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium. |
| 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. |
| Additional | Smith replied 11 Sep [1784] |
