William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/17/115
Title William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London
Letter date 21 May 1818
Author(s) William Roscoe 1753-1831
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/17/115 from William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London (21 May 1818)

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Item Type: Document
From: Roscoe, William
Sent from: Liverpool, Lancashire
To: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location: London
Summary:

Read Smith's Cambridge pamphlet with "equal impatience & pleasure"; believes it will eventually gain him the position [of botany professor]. Transcribes notice for the "Liverpool Mercury" announcing Smith's upcoming course of lectures on botany and vegetable physiology at Liverpool Royal Institution; requests further details from Smith; the subscription for non-proprieters will be two guineas. Sorry to hear Lady [Pleasance] Smith will not be accompanying Smith to Liverpool.

Letter date: 21 May 1818
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 17.233
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AdditionalSmith replied 26 May [1818]
Related MaterialSmith, J E, and Monk, J H [1818]. "[A review of] Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship, by Sir James Edward Smith ... [And] A vindication of the University of Cambridge from the reflections of ... Smith ... by ... James Henry Monk".
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.