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GB-110/JES/COR/19/97
Title
Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith
Letter date
14 Sep 1815
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/97 from Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith (14 September 1815)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/97 from Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith (14 September 1815) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Shugborough, Staffordshire
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Summary:
Shock at "miserable news" of death of "poor dear Francis" [Smith's brother], received in letter from Mr Martineau. Kindness of [Thomas William] Coke in delivering the letter, comforting him, cancelling their planned excursion to Wynnestay, [Denbighshire, for an agricultural meeting], and coming straight here [home of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767-1818)]. Resolved to see Fanny [Smith's sister] in Liverpool; his grief.
Letter date:
14 Sep 1815
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.212
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. |
