Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Sent from:
Bungay, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
London
Summary:
Thanks for Smith's letter [of 17 February 1792] and parcel containing "Flora Lapponica"; missing sheets. Unsure whether to go on with [James] Dickson's ["Hortus siccus Britannicus"] as it is expensive for duplicates and moderate specimens. Thanks for specimens of 'Iberis amara' and 'Lycoperdon cancellatum', which is definitely the "nidus of insects".
Congratulates Smith on "high honour" of organising the Queen's [Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)] herbarium but fears the main benefit will be opportunity of consulting [John] Lightfoot's herbarium, as the King [George III (1738-1820)] and Queen are "famous for being satisfied with the honour which their acceptance of obligations confers" and gives example of a friend who gave a Hunter to the King for free.
Alarmed to hear of the Pantheon fire [a theatre near Smith's house] and danger to Smith's health and library; asks if the apothecary whose premises were damaged by falling of the inner walls some days later was [Robert] Batty's. [John] Pitchford passed on letter from [James] Sowerby requesting specimens of fungi; will endeavour to supply him, lists those he could send now.
"Buried" in snow at present. Intends to attend Linnean Society anniversary meeting. They are to petition "all over Suffolk" against the slave trade.
Letter date:
19 Feb 1792
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
18.112
Additional Information:
Note type | Note |
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Additional | Smith replied 20 Mar [1792] |
Related Material | For Smith's letter of 17 February 1792, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/18/53. For Smith's reply of 20 March 1792, see JES/COR/18/55.
Dickson, J, (1793). "Hortus siccus britannicus: being a collection of dried British plants, named on the authority of the Linnæan herbarium, and other original collections." London: Printed for the Author; not available in Linnean Society Library, available from Natural History Museum Library or British Library.
Smith, J E, (1800-1804). "Flora Britannica" London: Davis. |