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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/10/62
Title
Martha Watt, Northaw Place, [Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
3 Jun 1793
Author(s)
Martha Watt 1755-1795
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/10/62 from Martha Watt, Northaw Place, [Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith (3 June 1793)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/10/62 from Martha Watt, Northaw Place, [Hertfordshire], to James Edward Smith (3 June 1793) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Watt, Martha
Sent from:
Northaw, Hertfordshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Touched by Smith's letter regarding her father [John Ellis (c 1710-1776), zoologist]. Would like to see Smith's collections when she is next in London.
[On the reverse of this letter is a note by Pleasance Smith stating that Mrs Watt was the only child of John Ellis FRS, "illustrous as the author of a work on Corallines" and direction to an additional letter in the "Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith" [see RelatedMaterial below]]
Letter date:
3 Jun 1793
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
10.101
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 | Transcription of an unextant additional letter from Watt to Smith dated 23 June 1793 and thanking Smith for copy of his "skecth of a Tour on the Continent" and praising his skills, and additional information on Watt, in Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.310-312. Ellis, J, (1755). "An essay towards a natural history of the corallines ... commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland ..." London: the Author. |
