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GB-110/JES/COR/19/43
Title
James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, chez Monsr le Marquis Hippolito Durazzo, Genes, Italie
Letter date
7 Dec 1786
Author(s)
James Smith 1727-1795
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/43 from James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, chez Monsr le Marquis Hippolito Durazzo, Genes, Italie (7 December 1786)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/43 from James Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, chez Monsr le Marquis Hippolito Durazzo, Genes, Italie (7 December 1786) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, James
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Genoa, Italy
Summary:
Received Smith's letter of 18 [November 1786]; their delight at Smith's account of his travels. Sharp start to winter in northern Europe. Dr [John] Hope dead, succeeded by Dr Rutherford. Various enquiries after Smith's "Thesis"; [Nicholas] Gwyn praises the Latin. Norwich news. October issue of "Monthly Review" very high in its praise of Smith's last publication. Reported that convicts are not to be sent to Botany Bay as the country is so extensive it may prove "too big for control", so are sent to New Norfolk Island. Price of silk falling.
Letter date:
7 Dec 1786
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.113
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 letter of 18 November 1786, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/19/41. For Smith's reply of 30 December 1786, see JES/COR/19/44. Smith, J E, and Oosterdijk, N G , (1786). "Disputatio physiologica inauguralis. Quaedam de Generatione complectens ... ex auctoritate ... Nicolai Georgii Ooesterdyk, ... submittit Jacobus Eduardus Smith, ..." Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Fratres Murray. |
