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Ref No
GB-110/JES/COR/19/42
Title
James Edward Smith, Marseilles, [France], to James Smith, Market Place, Norwich, [Norfolk], Angleterre
Letter date
5 Dec 1786
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/42 from James Edward Smith, Marseilles, [France], to James Smith, Market Place, Norwich, [Norfolk], Angleterre (5 December 1786)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/42 from James Edward Smith, Marseilles, [France], to James Smith, Market Place, Norwich, [Norfolk], Angleterre (5 December 1786) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Marseilles, France
To:
Smith, James
Sent to location:
Norwich, Norfolk
Summary:
His last letter was from Montpelier 18 November [1786]. Account of their journey from Montpelier to Marseilles, via Nismes, Avignon, where they had an excursion to the "prostituted" fountain of Vaucluse, and Aix. His favourable opinion of inhabitants and town of Marseilles. Cheapness of travelling.
Introductions for his father's cloth business; competition from Manchester and Yorkshire riders. Saw a funeral procession "with all sorts of mummery".
Letter date:
5 Dec 1786
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.111
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. |
| Additional | James Smith replied 4 Jan [1787] |
