Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery
Sent from:
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
Waiting for Lady Cullum to have her cataract operation before coming to London; hopes to attend meetings of Antiquarian and Horticultural Societies and Linnean Society anniversary meeting, though Smith will have to announce deaths of [John] Stackhouse and [Thomas] Woodward. The "celebrated" Arthur Young [(1741-1820)] of the Board of Agriculture died recently at Bradfield, near Bury. Introduces Mr Longstaff, bearer of this letter and an astronomcial lecturer. Hopes to attend some of Smith's Royal Institution lectures on "the affinities of plants" in May. Has grown plants of either Smith's 'Dianthus virgineus' or 'Dianthus alpinus' from his "Tour of the Continent" from seeds collected on ruins of Catullus' villa on Lake Garda. 'Tulipa sylvestris', 'Rheum undulatum', and 'Scrophularia vernalis' coming into flower soon.
Letter date:
15 Apr 1820
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
13.117
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 26 April 1820, see JES/COR/13/64. For Cullum's further discussion of the 'Dianthus' see letter of 27 August 1820 JES/COR/13/66.
Smith, J E, (1793). "A sketch of a tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787" London. |
| Additional | Smith replied 26 Apr 1820 |
