James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/18/80
Title James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
Letter date 9 Feb 1794
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 6

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GB-110/JES/COR/18/80 from James Edward Smith, London, to Thomas Jenkinson Woodward (9 February 1794)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: London
To: Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson
Summary:

Sends perfect copy of his "Tour" and copies of his "New Holland" work; particularly pleased with his description of 'Billardiera'. Examined 'Fucus confervoides' of Linnaean herbarium and confirms it is 'F. vesuicosus' [William] Hudson and not 'F. albidus', finds no 'F. incurous' Hudson in herbarium. Mr Egerton the only one of [Samuel] Goodenough's pupils to die [from a fever at Goodenough’s school]. Visited North Walsham, [Norfolk], to meet botanist Revd Mr Hepworth. Will be in Norwich in June to lecture on botany and zoology for 6 weeks.
Thanks for Woodward's good opinion of his "Tour"; opinion of others including his Windsor friend and Sir Abraham and Lady [Amelia] Hume, despite Sir Abraham being a friend of [Edmund] Burke [(1730-1797), politician] and an "alarmist"; has heard nothing of De Luc's or the Queen's [Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)] opinion; only criticism received so far is from his "honest but bigotted friend" [Thomas] Marhsam, "a furious friend of the slave trade & an enemy of Dr [Joseph] Priestly [(1733-1804), theologian]", who says he did wrong in mentioning Priestly.
[Letter incomplete: lower two-thirds of second folio cropped, text presumed destroyed]

Letter date: 9 Feb 1794
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 18.166
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Related MaterialFor further on fever at Goodenough's school, see JES/COR/18/78. Smith, J E, (1793). "A specimen of the botany of New Holland. The figures by James Sowerby." London: J. Sowerby. Smith, J E, (1793). "A sketch of a tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787" London.