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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/17/100
Title
William Roscoe to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, London
Letter date
[2 Jul 1815]
Author(s)
William Roscoe 1753-1831
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/17/100 from William Roscoe to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, London (2 July 1815)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/17/100 from William Roscoe to Sir James Edward Smith, 43 Upper Seymour Street, London (2 July 1815) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Discusses plans for proposed visit by Smith, [Thomas William] Coke, and Dr Parr to Allerton in September. Intends to write further on 'Scitamineae' plants; asks Smith to provide details of plant they examined in [Edward] Rudge's "Plants of Guiana" and [Etienne Ventenat's] "Jardin de Malmaison" and provides rough ink sketch and comments on appearance. Will not comment on the "astonishing events we have lived to see in the political world". Has not seen Smith's mother in Liverpool yet.
Letter date:
[2 Jul 1815]
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.199
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Rudge, E, (1805). "Plantarum Guianae rariorum icones et descriptiones ... Volumen I." Londini: the author. Ventenat, E P, (1803-1804). "Jardin de la Malmaison." Paris: Crapelet. |
| 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. |
