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GB-110/JES/COR/19/75
Title
James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date
8 Jul 1803
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/75 from James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (8 July 1803)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/75 from James Edward Smith, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (8 July 1803) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Liverpool, Lancashire
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location:
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Summary:
Account of his Liverpool "adventures". Visited the Octagon Chapel, named after their own in Norwich; dined with [William] Roscoe at Allerton [Roscoe's home, near Liverpool], description of house, grounds, and family; visit to Dr Brandreth; visit to Mr Blundell and his Italian collections; dined with Dr Currie.
His lectures: has given two so far, attended by "all the beauty & fashion of the place, as well as by the learned"; William, [Smith's brother], surprised by his oratory, as he never aims at more than "plainness"; finances. Visiting [John] Koster, who was Consul at Lisbon, and was a great friend to Correa and Broussonet in their distresses; convinced the current war is "nearly certain ruin". His mother and Sarah happy at Blackheath.
Letter date:
8 Jul 1803
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.169
Additional Information:
| 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. |
