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GB-110/JES/COR/12/110
Title
Samuel Goodenough, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date
16 May 1827
Author(s)
Samuel Goodenough 1743-1827
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/12/110 from Samuel Goodenough, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (16 May 1827)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/12/110 from Samuel Goodenough, London, to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (16 May 1827) 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:
Cannot attend next week's Linnean Society anniversary meeting owing to illness and prior committment to attend two Episcopal meetings. Has not seen anything of Sir T[homas] Cullum or [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert. Fears he will not be able to go to Rose Castle this year, and Mrs Goodenough is exceedingly ill.
[Note by Pleasance Smith] last letter Goodenough sent to Smith before dying in Worthing, [Sussex], on 12 August 1827, buried in the North Cloister of Westminster Abbey close to his friend Dr [William] Markham, Archbishop of York [(1719-1807)]
[Letter possibly incomplete: address label is on a separate piece of paper, text of the letter appears extant]
Letter date:
16 May 1827
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
12.202
