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GB-110/JES/COR/2/2
Title
Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
22 Aug 1823
Author(s)
Edmund Henry Barker 1788-1839
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/2/2 from Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (22 August 1823)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Barker, Edmund Henry
Sent from:
Thetford, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Received copy of Smith's "Defence of the Church and Universities of England". Currently engaged in an "important Chancery-suit". Offers to show Smith the manuscripts of [John] Stackhouse. Wwriting a commentary on the reminiscences of Charles Butler, including Butler's opinion of Gray. Asks Smith's opinion on the 'Acanthus' of Virgil as described by Barker in the notes of [Charles] Symmons' [(1749-1826), poet and biographer] translation of Virgil. Comments on [Johann Heinrich] Voss's translation of Virgil and effect on opinions of German botanists. Sends two pamphlets, one against Blomfield and Monk, and the other on Greek independence.
Letter date:
22 Aug 1823
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.3
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1819). "A Defence of the Church and Universities of England", London. Virgil, (1817). "The AEneis of Virgil. Translated [into English verse, with notes] by C. Symmons", London; please note not available from Linnean Society Library. |
