Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, Carlisle, [Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Robert Reeve's, Lowestoft, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/12/63
Title Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, Carlisle, [Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Robert Reeve's, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date 16 Sep 1820
Author(s) Samuel Goodenough 1743-1827
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/12/63 from Samuel Goodenough, Rose Castle, Carlisle, [Cumberland], to Sir James Edward Smith, at Robert Reeve's, Lowestoft, Suffolk (16 September 1820)

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

Forwards an accidently opened letter intended for Smith. Does not think Sir Humphry Davy deserves suspicion of being "a talebearer from the continent"; his accounts agree with those of others and witnesses from Italy disclosing upon oath [in the trial of Caroline (1768-1821), George IV's queen ]. If Davy is chosen as Royal Society president it would be best to support him freely to maintain the dignity of the chair. Hopes Smith is completing the final volume of "Flora Britannica" whilst being kept from London in November.
Disheartened that the Queen's trial has so much left, thinks the country will be corrupted by what has so far been disclosed and from being "a sort of outcast" her stubborness is now causing dissension in the House of Lords.
Thinks [Robert] Brown can only let Sir Joseph Banks' Soho Square house left to him; hopes he has not paid legacy tax on all of it. Banks' heirs and executors "keen as razors"; cites their demands for the machine for weighing matter kept at Royal Society and previously considered a gift. Lady Banks' and heir Sir Edward Knatchbull [9th baronet (1781-1849)] making the most of the £25,000 per annum. Bishop of Durham [Shute Barrington] cannot get rid of gout in his hand.

Letter date: 16 Sep 1820
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 12.116
Additional Information:
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Related MaterialFor letter from William Smith to James Edward Smith on Queen Caroline's conduct see JES/COR/9/50; and further letters from Goodenough on same and her trial see JES/COR/12/59-62; JES/COR/12/64-66; JES/COR/12/69. Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.
AdditionalSmith replied 22 [Sep 1820]