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GB-110/JES/COR/5/106 from William Jones, London, to James Edward Smith, chez Mons Broussonet, 57 Rue des blancs, Manteaux, Paris, [France] (August 1787)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/5/106 from William Jones, London, to James Edward Smith, chez Mons Broussonet, 57 Rue des blancs, Manteaux, Paris, [France] (August 1787) Close
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Long rhapsody on Smith's friendship and difficulties of finding true friends. [Thomas] Marsham miffed that Smith wrote to Jones unpressed but not to Marsham or [Samuel] Goodenough who solicited "anxiously". Critiques the clergy, including [Samuel] Goodenough for being, "friends to persecution and [...] not [allowing] a liberty of conscience". Fears Goodenough and Marsham will "banish [Jones] to Coventry" if he does not unite in the [Linnean] Society, hopes to mollify them by offering a collection of 'Lepidoptera' he is gathering to Goodenough, and giving Marsham scientific information for his book ["Entomologia Britannica"]. [Johan Christian] Fabricius in London and correcting his [Jones'] drawings but will be gone by time Smith returns. Has heard nothing of [William] Younge.
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | Marsham, T, (1802). "Entomologia Britannica sistens insecta Britanniae indigena..." Londinum: White. Extract from Smith's letter dated 7 July 1787 to Jones is printed in Poulton, E B, Hobby, B M, Hemming, F, and Edelsten, H M, 'English names regularly used for British Lepidoptera up to the end of the eighteenth century, with a biographical account of William Jones of Chelsea', "Transactions of the Society for British Entomology", 1934 1(2), pp.139-184, reprint available from Linnean Society Library. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.261-264. |
