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GB-110/JES/COR/6/68
Title
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
26 Aug 1809
Author(s)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert 1761-1842
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/6/68 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith (26 August 1809)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/6/68 from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith (26 August 1809) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke
Sent from:
Boyton, Wiltshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Discusses a "curious communication" containing as "much botanical as well as physical information" [presumably a paper or figure by Richard Salisbury]. States they "are only at war with the immoral not the scientific part of "that fellow of nuisance and scandal"", concludes that [Salisbury] is now received at Soho Square [home of Sir Joseph Banks] as Lady Hamilton [(1765-1815) mistress of Lord Nelson] would be [following discovery of Salisbury stealing Sir Joseph Banks' drawings and publishing them as his own]. Discusses history of a disputed related drawing. Death of Amelia Hume. Discusses distinctness of the two species of 'Aegiphyla'.
[Letter incomplete: sections cropped, presumed destroyed]
Letter date:
26 Aug 1809
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
6.131
Additional Information:
| 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 | For further on Salisbury's fabrication of plants from Lady Essex's garden see JES/COR/6/62; JES/COR/6/63; JES/COR/11/63; JES/COR/11/65. |
