Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Goodenough, Samuel
Sent from:
Carlisle, Cumberland
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Numerous accidents and illnesses having befallen his servants, including typhus fever, has thrown his household into confusion. Received a pot of 'Gloxinia speciosa' from Lady [Anne] Melville [(d 1841), wife of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville]; at first sight the flower is similar to 'Digitalis'. Experienced a very favourable summer but their "greedy" farmers have been working on Sundays as if it were a perilous time. Goodenough reports that on the death of the Queen [Caroline (1768-1821), wife of George IV, died 7 August 1821] some initially put on deep mourning but stopped after finding the many did not; believes the Queen's trial was just used for party politics. Visited by family of the wife of his son, Edmund [the Cockerells]. Goodenough thinks the King [George IV (1762-1830)] is "enjoying himself finely" and that "the Irish were half out of their wits" [the King paid a state visit to Ireland in 1821]. Does not agree with the treatment prescribed for his granddaughter's bad back.
Letter date:
28 Sep 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
12.128
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 29 Nov [1821] |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.600-602. |
| Related Material | For 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/12/59-66. |
