Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent from:
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Asks after Smith's recent movements and activities, including "Flora Britannica". A mild winter allowed him to gather flowering 'Vinca minor' three miles from Bury. Sends his respects to Dr [George] Shaw and [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert. Asks if Smith has heard from [Richard] Relhan, whose affairs are "deranged" in spite of a £700 subscription. Asks if new editions of [William] Withering's "Botanical Arrangement" and "Hortus Kewensis" are to appear. Will pay his lapsed Linnean Society subscription before next anniversary meeting. Asks for a copy of Sir George Staunton's "Embassy to China" to be reserved for him at White's; missed the first edition of [James] Cook's last voyage through failing to do this. A spare room always available at his house for friends.
Addition at head of recto of first folio states he fears a letter to [James] Sowerby requesting all previous numbers of his "Cryptogamia" has been lost.
Letter date:
5 Feb 1796
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.18
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.
Withering, W, and Stokes, J, (1787-1792). "A botanical arrangement of British plants... The second edition... including a new set of references to figures by Jonathan Stokes." Birmingham: Robinson.
Aiton, W, (1789). "Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew..." London: Printed for George Nicol.
Staunton, G L, and Macartney, G, (1798). "An authentic account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly form the papers of ... the Earl of Macartney ... Second edition ..." London: Nicol. |
| Additional | Smith replied 16 Mar [1796] |
