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GB-110/JES/COR/19/58 from James Edward Smith, Genoa, [Italy], to James Smith, 14 Paradise Row, Chelsea, [London] (2 July 1787)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/58 from James Edward Smith, Genoa, [Italy], to James Smith, 14 Paradise Row, Chelsea, [London] (2 July 1787) Close
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Received his parents' letters of 16 May, 21 May, and 28 May [1787]. Sending books home. Sorry to hear of Molly Standard's "folly & misfortune" [Smith's housekeeper; she had become pregnant]. Conduct of cousin Thomas Smith and his sister fills him with "surprise & indignation [...] shame & contempt". Has advised Mr Marsh to take a ship home to England, realising that he will never get well on land, and his father demands his return as he has spent over £600 in the last 6 months. Details of his and [William] Younge's parting of ways. "Very well pleased" with a servant he hired at Milan, though he "dresses hair badly".
During his time at Pavia met Scopoli, who having heard he intends to publish some works of Linnaeus, offered all his notes; had his suspicions about Spalanzani and Scopoli fully justified; account of Spalanzani; overlooking translation of his publication into Italian [probably his Leyden dissertation]. Time spent with the Marquis Durazzo. Suffered a slight health scare but now better.
Note type | Note |
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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 James Smith's letters of 16 May 1787 and 28 May 1787, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/19/54 and JES/COR/19/58, respectively. 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. |
Additional | James Smith replied 19 Jul [1787] |