Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, near York, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/15/29
Title Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, near York, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
Letter date 4 Feb 1806
Author(s) Sir Thomas, 6th baronet Frankland 1750-1831
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/15/29 from Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, near York, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk] (4 February 1806)

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Item Type: Document
From: Frankland, Sir Thomas
Sent from: Thirkleby, Yorkshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:

Informed of Smith's illness by his "new & valuable correspondent", [James] Brodie. Regrets that any dispute "should have arisen with a man who having proved himself capable of premeditated, & continued, deceit must have ever remained a charatcer for mistrust" [presumably a reference to Richard Salisbury's dispute with Smith]. Recommended Loudon to Mr Price of Foxley as he was going into that neighbourhood, but Price objects to much of Loudon's book.
Wrote paper for Linnean Society testifying [William] Hudson's "Flora Anglica" in response to so many of the marine plants in "English Botany" not conforming with Hudson's. Received 'Pyrola uniflora', the last he wanted, from Brodie. His only botanical neighbour, Archdeacon Pierson, has died of pleurisy in very bad circumstances; his herbarium of 1500 English and 2000 exotic dried plants on paper 18 inches by 12 to be sold at York, he would always go back and improve his specimens whenever he found better.

Letter date: 4 Feb 1806
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 15.48
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Finding AidsDawson, 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 MaterialSmith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London. Frankland, T. "On the marine plants described in the Flora Anglica". Read 3 June 1806. Hudson, W, (1762). "Flora Anglica, exhibens plantas per regnum Angliae sponte crescentes..." Londinum: [privately].