Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Davall, Edmund
Sent to location:
Orbe, Switzerland
Summary:
Note on letter received 5 February [1798].
Sorry to have not written since 2 November 1796; informed by Bracy Clark that Davall is in bad health. His move to Norwich successful and happily settled with wife and no children. Has been in Wales treating [Mariamne] Johnes' diseased spine. Working on "Flora Britannica". Anxious to send Davall continuation of "English Botany". Has been studying [William] Sherard's [(1659-1728)] herbarium at Oxford and can now settle 'Mentha' to his satisfaction: gives botanical characters of 'M. arvensis', 'M. gentilis', 'M. sativa', 'M. pulegium', and thinks there are no real differences in species between 'capitate' and verticillate'. Publishing a volume of "Tracts relating to natural history"; contents. Lady Rockingham often asks after Davall.
Letter date:
17 Jan 1798
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
14.214
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Davall's unfinished response to this letter see JES/COR/14/89. For letters from Bracy Clark on Davall's condition see his letter to Smith of 22 March 1798, 10 July 1798, and 27 September 1798, see JES/COR/3/70, JES/COR/3/71, and JES/COR/3/72 respectively.
Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis.
Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London.
Smith, J E, (1798). "Tracts relating to natural history ..." London: [privately.]. |
| 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. |
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