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GB-110/JES/COR/12/68
Title
Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
19 Apr 1821
Author(s)
Samuel Goodenough 1743-1827
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/12/68 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (19 April 1821)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/68 from Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (19 April 1821) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Goodenough, Samuel
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Hopes the mistletoe berries he forwarded for Smith will succeed. Sorry to hear of Smith's troubles with his "near connections". Linnean Society disappointed by Smith's absence on 16 April. Has taken the chair at the Society a few times after [Alexander] Macleay's report of "poor [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert having forgot himself one night most strangely". Reports an accident at Westminster School, of which his son Edmund is the headmaster, involving a pupil and a glazier who "saw too much". Edmund to marry Miss Fanny Cockerell, youngest daughter of [Samuel Pepys] Cockerell [(1753-1827)] the architect and niece of Sir Charles Cockerell [1st baronet (1755-1837), banker].
Letter date:
19 Apr 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
12.126
