Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to James Edward Smith, Mrs Wiggins', Craven Hill, Bayswater, Middlesex

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/7/12
Title Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to James Edward Smith, Mrs Wiggins', Craven Hill, Bayswater, Middlesex
Letter date 24 Jun 1814
Author(s) Thomas Martyn 1735-1825
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/7/12 from Thomas Martyn, Pertenhall, [Bedfordshire], to James Edward Smith, Mrs Wiggins', Craven Hill, Bayswater, Middlesex (24 June 1814)

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Item Type: Document
From: Martyn, Thomas
Sent from: Pertenhall, Bedfordshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Bayswater, Middlesex
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. [Richard] Relhan has enquired after a report that [Martyn] is resigning in Smith's favour. Smith right in gaining support from outside Cambridge. Discusses process of Cambridge elections and reiterates Dr [Richard] Walker's [(1679-1764) founder of Cambridge Botanic Garden] provision in his gift of the lectureship that a foreigner may be elected if sufficiently qualified.

Letter date: 24 Jun 1814
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 7.2
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.