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GB-110/JES/COR/2/3
Title
Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
13 Oct 1823
Author(s)
Edmund Henry Barker 1788-1839
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/2/3 from Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith (13 October 1823)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/2/3 from Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith (13 October 1823) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Barker, Edmund Henry
Sent from:
Thetford, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Thanks Smith for pamphlet and papers on the Norwich Literary Institution. Offers to lend Smith Savi's 'Observationes in varias Trifoliorum species'. Remarks on Charles Butler [(1750-1832), Roman Catholic layman and lawyer]. Admiration for William Roscoe, desires to get him interested in Greek independence. Thanks Smith for his desire to assist in the Greek cause and suggests the establishment of a committee in Norwich to that end.
Manuscript copies, in Barker's hand, of a circular from a committee in Brighton in support of Greek independence, and of a letter received from William Thornton of Washington, USA, on the same.
Letter date:
13 Oct 1823
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.6
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Savi, G, (1810). "Observationes in varias Trifoliorum species" Florence: Piatti. |
| 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. |
