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GB-110/JES/COR/2/127
Title
Francis Buchanan, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
20 Mar 1806
Author(s)
Francis Hamilton 1762-1829
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/2/127 from Francis Buchanan, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (20 March 1806)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/2/127 from Francis Buchanan, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (20 March 1806) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Hamilton, Francis
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Frustrated in his intentions to go India by the Chairman of the Court of Directors [Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810) 1st baronet] of the East India Company so is going to Scotland for three weeks. Hopes to meet Smith after to discuss arrangements for his Nepalese flora materials; proposes that Smith publish the drawings and full descriptions in his "Exotic Botany" and he will separately prepare a Prodroumus like [Carl Peter] Thunberg's "Flora Japponica". Has seen [Richard] Salisbury and his work, advises Smith not to embroil himself in a controversy.
Letter date:
20 Mar 1806
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
2.213
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For further discussion of Hamilton's Nepalese herbarium and flora see JES/COR/2/126; JES/COR/2/128; JES/COR/2/137-138. Smith, J E, (1804-1805). "Exotic botany" London: J. Sowerby. Thunberg, C P, (1784). "Flora Japonica" Lipsia: Muller. |
| 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. |
| Copies | Transcript available from Linnean Society Library. |
