Thomas Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/16/33
Title Thomas Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date 13 Mar 1796
Author(s) Thomas Johnes 1748-1816
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/16/33 from Thomas Johnes, Hafod, [Cardiganshire], to James Edward Smith (13 March 1796)

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Item Type: Document
From: Johnes, Thomas
Sent from: Hafod, Cardiganshire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:

Congratulates Smith on his marriage, which he saw announced in the Times newspaper. Read [Eberhard August Wilhelm von] Zimmermann a long time ago but "with great pleasure" and asks if Smith knows Lavater's "Journal", printed for Cadell in two small volumes.
'Strelitzia' and 'Illicium floridanum' in fine flower, the first drawn by his daughter [Mariamne Johnes] "incomparably well". Gives directions for delivery of the insect cabinet Smith promised her. His friend [Robert] Liston [(1742-1836)] has also recently married "an old flame", has not heard if he brought him anything from Constantinople and he is now to be ambassador to America. During the dry and sharp weather he burnt some furze covered mountains; "one of the grandest sights I ever witnessed".

Letter date: 13 Mar 1796
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 16.49
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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.