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GB-110/JES/COR/19/101
Title
Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith
Letter date
7 Oct 1815
Author(s)
Pleasance Smith 1773-1877
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/101 from Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith (7 October 1815)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/101 from Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to Sir James Edward Smith (7 October 1815) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Pleasance
Sent from:
Lowestoft, Suffolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Imagines Smith enjoying delights of Allerton Hall, [Liverpool, home of William Roscoe]. In "raptures" with [Edward] Gibbon's [(1737-1794)] "Memoirs", discusses the work and Gibbon in detail. News of their Norfolk friends. Sending blond herrings to Lady Anson [Smith's host at Shugborough, Staffordshire].
[Letter incomplete: folio[s] missing, presumed destroyed]
Letter date:
7 Oct 1815
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.219
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| 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. |
