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GB-110/JES/COR/14/76
Title
Edmund Davall to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date
19 Jun 1795
Author(s)
Edmund Davall 1763-1798
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/14/76 from Edmund Davall to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (19 June 1795)
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Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Forgetting his native language. His gardening work: destroyed a vineyard to make a garden, building walls, and levelling ground, had to closely supervise workmen to control costs. Large part of new ground will be for a kitchen garden to feed his family and hopes to add a greenhouse but needs plans more specific than [James] Dickson's sent as the few greenhouses in Switzerland are "hardly better than cellars". Misses Smith and reminded of him daily. Requests Dickson to reserve "Hortus Siccus Britannicus" for him. Impatient for "English Botany" and "New Holland Botany", suggests sending them via a perfumers on Haymarket.
Letter date:
19 Jun 1795
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.194
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | For Smith's letter of 16 March 1795, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/14/74. For Smith's reply of 28 October 1795, see JES/COR/14/77. Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London. Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1793). "A specimen of the botany of New Holland Vol. I The figures by James Sowerby [imperfect]." London: J. Sowerby. |
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
| Additional | Smith replied 28 Oct [1795] |
