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GB-110/JES/COR/12/52 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith (29 November 1819)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/52 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith (29 November 1819) Close
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Hopes Smith received the barrels of oysters he sent. Has not seen [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert for a fortnight, a private report says that Mrs [Catherine] Lambert is "quite deranged". Sir Joseph Banks unwell. The "famous American serpent [...] of immense size and length", mentioned by Aldrovandus [(1522-1605), Italian naturalist] now ascertained to exist after being seen by 300 people at once, and will hopefully be caught soon. Calls in north-west Yorkshire for military patrols following reports of radicals going about publicly armed; Goodenough thinks this "feverish anxiety" will come to a crisis soon, especially as [William] Cobbett [(1763-1835), political writer] has just landed with bones of Thomas Paine [(1737-1809), author and revolutionary].
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 1 Dec [1819] |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, p.600; extracts on American serpent and Paine's bones only. |
