Amelia Hume, Wormleybury, [Wormley, Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/5/91
Title Amelia Hume, Wormleybury, [Wormley, Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 7 Aug [1804]
Author(s) Amelia Hume 1751-1809
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/5/91 from Amelia Hume, Wormleybury, [Wormley, Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith (7 August 1804)

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Item Type: Document
From: Hume, Amelia
Sent from: Wormley, Hertfordshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Sends specimen of 'Humea' and an elm-leaved 'Grewia' for determination. Has a 'Nymphea' very similar to 'Carnia' but the flower is milk-white and nocturnal. Fears of invasion by the French, living in "anxious dread of the great little man's visit". Comments that the "great victory" achieved by the English merchant "China ships" fighting off [Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand] Linois' [French admiral] attack, without a convoy, was a "glory".

Letter date: 7 Aug [1804]
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 5.177
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
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.
AdditionalSmith replied 19 [Aug 1804]