Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/19/98
Title Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date 16 Sep 1815
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/19/98 from Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (16 September 1815)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: Shugborough, Staffordshire
To: Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location: Lowestoft, Suffolk
Summary:

He has written to his mother and sister-in-law Francis [following death of Smith's brother, Francis]; anxious to hear news from Norwich. Describes the party and scenes at Shugborough [home of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767-1818)]; George Blackwell is his constant companion. His grief. Intends to go to Liverpool to see [William] Roscoe and Fanny [Smith's sister].
[Letter incomplete: lower half of second folio cropped, presumed destroyed]

Letter date: 16 Sep 1815
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 19.213
Additional Information:
Note typeNote
Finding AidsDawson, 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.