Joseph Caffarena, Genoa, [Italy], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/4/93
Title Joseph Caffarena, Genoa, [Italy], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 7 Feb 1789
Author(s) Joseph Caffarena 1788-1790
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/4/93 from Joseph Caffarena, Genoa, [Italy], to James Edward Smith (7 February 1789)

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Item Type: Document
From: Caffarena, Joseph
Sent from: Genoa, Italy
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

A great deal of sickness in Genoa in the winter "has swept away a prodigious amount of our inhabitants". None of [William] Batt's [(1744-1812) physician and chemist] patients died, earning him great credit but the plants in his botanic garden have all been frozen, asks Smith to procure whatever replacements he can. Sir Thomas Rumbold [(1736-1791) administrator of India] and his family have been visiting. Asks to pass apologies to Lord Verney should Smith see him. Thanks Smith for items sent for his little museum. Sending a collection of petrifications for Smith from Baron de la Turbie. Thanks for the "English songs", which are "very acceptable", and are to be sung at a wedding. Postscript from Caffarena's wife, explaining how her mother has been unable to write and thanking Smith for the English songs.

Letter date: 7 Feb 1789
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 4.162
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Finding AidsDawson, 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.