Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/71
Title Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London
Letter date 15 May 1793
Author(s) Thomas Jenkinson Woodward 1745-1820
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/71 from Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Bungay, [Suffolk], to James Edward Smith, 12 Great Marlborough Street, London (15 May 1793)

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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 hospitality in London. Details of his return journey via Huntingdonshire, including Ripton, Huntingdon, and Bury, where he dined with Sir Thomas Cullum and saw 'Holosteum umbellatum' adorning several thatched houses and 'Vicia lathyroides' near the town. At Cambridge saw 'Arabis turrita' on walls of St John's College. Will shortly be at Yarmouth, [Norfolk], from whence he will send [James] Sowerby 'Cinceraria palustris' and 'Convolvulus soldanella'. At Cambridge found [Richard] Relhan "quite crazy"about the "conjuror of Chalgravis" fern, inserted in appendix to "Flora Cantabrigiensis" under name of 'Acidium from Maller's "Systema"; observations including discussion of letter by Sir Joseph Banks on subject.

Letter date: 15 May 1793
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.147
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Related MaterialFor Smith's reply of 1 June 1793, see JES/COR/18/72. Relhan, R, (1785-1793). "Flora Cantabrigiensis, exhibens plantas agro Cantabrigiensi indigenas, secundum systema sexuale digestas... - (...Supplementum & ... Supplementum alterum... & Supplementum tertium.)." Cantabrigia: J. Archdeacon.
AdditionalSmith replied 1 Jun 1793