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

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/19/99
Title Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date 19 Sep 1815
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/19/99 from Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (19 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:

Irregular post. Their future movements, including trips to Liverpool to visit [William] Roscoe and return to Shugborough [home of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson (1767-1818)] to meet the Duke of Gloucester [Prince William (1776-1834), chancellor of Cambridge University]. Grief [at death of his brother, Francis], hopes to console himself with Fanny [Smith's sister]. Charms of Shugborough and its inhabitants.
[Letter incomplete: final lines of second folio cropped, presumed destroyed]

Letter date: 19 Sep 1815
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 19.215
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.