Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Caldwell, Andrew
Sent from:
Dublin, Ireland
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Hopes Smith will be able to get the "Flora [Britannica]" out by next spring, as planned. Has been unable to look through the "Greek Botany". Could not find 'Arabis stricta' at St Vincent's Rock, Bristol, but did observe 'Gentiana amarella', 'Geranium sanguineum', and both 'Lichen dioica'. Hopes Smith is able to quash all feuds in the "subscription library". Ireland is currently "perfectly quiet". Confirmed in his suspicions that the "Dutch expedition" would not succeed, "the very idea of forcing a government on a nation is intolerable" [Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, campaign of 27 August 1799 to 19 November 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, to promote an uprising by followers of the former stadtholder, William V, against the Batavian government].
Letter date:
19 Nov 1799
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
3.38
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.144-145, [significantly abridged and preceeded with a portion of letter JES/COR/3/19, there is also a final section concerning Lord Cloncurry's imprisonment in the Tower of London that is not extant in any of the original letters]. |
| Related Material | For further discussion of the political situation in Ireland see JES/COR/3/14-15; JES/COR/3/17-18; JES/COR/3/22; JES/COR/3/27.
Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. |
| 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. |
