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GB-110/JES/COR/15/80
Title
Mary Watson-Wentworth, Hillingdon, [Middlesex], to James Edward Smith, Great Marlborough Street, [London]
Letter date
27 May 1789
Author(s)
Mary Watson- Wentworth 1735-1804
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/15/80 from Mary Watson-Wentworth, Hillingdon, [Middlesex], to James Edward Smith, Great Marlborough Street, [London] (27 May 1789)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/15/80 from Mary Watson-Wentworth, Hillingdon, [Middlesex], to James Edward Smith, Great Marlborough Street, [London] (27 May 1789) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Wentworth, Mary Watson-
Sent from:
Hillingdon, Middlesex
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Sends specimen of 'Catesbaea [spinosa]' specimen with three flowers dropping together, to be drawn by [James] Sowerby for Smith's book ["Icones pictae plantarum rariorum"]; requests copy of the same size as the two other plants Sowerby copied at Hillingdon. Will find out which year William Wallens of Jamaica sent the 'Euphorbia wallinia' to Wimbledon, [Surrey].
Letter date:
27 May 1789
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
15.146
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Specimen of 'Catesaea spinosa' in Smith herbarium, Savage no. 0188.1. Smith, J E, (1790-1793). "Icones pictae plantarum rariorum descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae auctore Jacobo Edvardo Smith. - Coloured figures of rare plants ..." 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. |
