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

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/19/100
Title Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date 25 Sep 1815
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/19/100 from Sir James Edward Smith, Shugborough, [Staffordshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (25 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:

Received kind letters from Norwich [on death of his brother, Francis], and [Thomas William] Coke has arranged for him to spend a week in Liverpool with Fanny [Smith's sister], to then meet Coke at Lord Derby's, Allerton [Hall, home of William Roscoe], and returning 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]. Arrangements for his return to Norwich and their visit to [Dawson] Turner. Account of his brother's funeral.
Account of his time here: visited Mr Tollit, whose wife is a great botanist; the Duke of Bedford [John Russell, 6th Duke] requested to become a FLS; the guests. [Francis] Buchanan[-Hamilton] returned from the East Indies and is to live in Scotland; they hope to meet occasionally in London.

Letter date: 25 Sep 1815
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 19.217
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.