Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Davall, Edmund
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Hammersmith, Middlesex
Summary:
Responds to Smith's letter of 28 October [1795]. Regrets not marrying an Englishwoman as he now feels exiled from England and Smith, and tormented by notion that his children are strangers both in country of their birth and native country of their father. Has bound all correspondence received from Smith to fulfill Smith's request that if either of them should die the letters be returned to the other. Despondent that his life not as happy as it would have been if he had lived nearer to Smith but consoled that Smith's affection for him has grown with his increase of occupations, connections, and distance between them; hopes he and Mrs Smith will visit.
Wrote to Smith 10 November enclosing 'Digitalis' seed from 1794, recommends it to [James] Lee though it probably will not rise till spring 1797. Was not well last summer so did not collect 'Saxifragus mutata' as intended.
Letter date:
29 Dec 1795
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.206
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 17 Apr 1796 |
| 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. |
| Related Material | For Smith's letter of 28 October 1795, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/14/77. For Smith's reply of 17 April 1796, see JES/COR/14/80. |
