Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, [Carlisle, Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

Item data

Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/12/26
Title Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, [Carlisle, Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 30 Sep 1816
Author(s) Samuel Goodenough 1743-1827
Number of Pages 4

See full metadata

See comments

Collection home page

Actions (login required)

Edit Item Edit Item

GB-110/JES/COR/12/26 from Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, [Carlisle, Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (30 September 1816)

Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/26 from Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, [Carlisle, Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (30 September 1816) Close

Item data

Item Type: Document
From: Goodenough, Samuel
Sent from: Carlisle, Cumberland
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:

Replying to Smith's letter of 29 August. Forwarded Smith's letter to [Elizabeth] Hill [(c 1760-1850), algologist]. A bad summer in Cumberland: very few flowers on their numerous carnations and for the first time he has ever known 'Lathyrus latifolius' also failed to flower, 'Orobus sylvaticus' and 'Cistus helianthemum' did flower. Vouches for Sir Thomas Frankland's reliability in condemning 'Carabus vulgaris'. Accepts Smith's offer to send new volume of "[Florae Graecae] Prodroumus" and new edition of "Compendium [florae Britannicae]". Knows nothing of Cambridge university politics and equates Smith's campaign [for botany professorship] to a game of chess; warns against moving the [Thomas] Martyn pawn at the wrong time [Martyn was the incumbent professor]. Pleased that Lord Exmouth Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, (1757-1833)] ended the Algerian war "at a stroke" [ Bombardment of Algiers, 1816]. Very poor harvest in Goodenough's parish, only fifty acres of eleven square miles have been brought in. Has been employing the poor when he can, and not just buying their idleness with money as fears is mistakenly done in London.

Letter date: 30 Sep 1816
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 12.45
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Related MaterialSibthorp, J, and Smith, J E, (1806-1813). "Florae Graecae prodromus: sive plantarum omnium enumeratio, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae invenit Johannes Sibthorp... Characteres et synonyma omnium cum annotationibus elaboravit Jacobus Edvardus Smith." Londinum: [printer:] Taylor. Smith, J E, and Hoffmann, G F, (1816). "Compendium florae Britannicae." Londinum: Longman, [2nd ed].
AdditionalSmith replied 9 Oct [1816]