Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Boyton House, [Wiltshire], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No 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)

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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 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.
Related MaterialFor 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.