Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Frankland, Sir Thomas
Sent from:
Thirkleby, Yorkshire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Pleased to hear of Smith's new work, "for to promote any study the greatest facilities should be given", believes that Valpy's and Jones' modern English-Greek Grammars would have saved him much time in his youth. His opinion on sexing of woodcocks changed, having considered opinions of Irish sportsmen and dissections made by Duke of Gordon.
Unconvinced by Horticultural Society's proposal for 33 acre experimental garden near Chiswick, [Middlesex], as the institution at present is already expensive, keeping up the garden could only be done through repeated calls for funds from members, and it will only be useful for publishing, for if the produce is sold then the nursery gardeners will be injured. Smith has not noticed his hedgehog anecdote.
Postscript on "Charms of fox-hunting", large portion of text missing from removal of address label on opposing side.
Letter date:
3 Apr 1822
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
15.128
Additional Information:
Note type | Note |
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Additional | Smith replied 24 [Apr 1822] |
Related Material | For Frankland's letter of 22 July 1821 on hedgehogs suckling cows, see JES/COR/15/65. For acknowledgement of 26 September 1822 of Rackett's receipt of letter see JES/COR/15/71, and 11 January 1825, see JES/COR/15/74, and 6 May 1827, see JES/COR/15/75. |
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. |