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GB-110/JES/COR/19/18
Title
James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Beveridge's, Patrick Street, Edinburgh
Letter date
5 Aug 1782
Author(s)
James Smith 1727-1795
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/18 from James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Beveridge's, Patrick Street, Edinburgh (5 August 1782)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/18 from James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, at Mrs Beveridge's, Patrick Street, Edinburgh (5 August 1782) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, James
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Edinburgh
Summary:
May accompany Smith on a tour of Cumberland and Westmorland, "there is ever a degree of horror in the grand and majestic prospects of Nature in solitude". Glad both their spirits were better at their recent parting than on their first. Hopes for Smith's future career and success. Account of his journey from Halifax, [Yorkshire], to Norwich, including trip to the theatre, where Frank [Smith's brother] "first saw a Montebank on the stage", disappointed by Lichfield, [Staffordshire], expectations of Birmingham, [Warwickshire] exceeded, ascended [John] Wyclif's [(d.1384), English theologian and reformer] pulpit at Lutterworth, [Leicestershire]. Norwich news.
Letter date:
5 Aug 1782
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.45
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Related Material | For Smith's reply of 19 Aug 1782, see JES/COR/19/20. |
