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GB-110/JES/COR/19/110
Title
Sir James Edward Smith, Birmingham, [Warwickshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date
27 Sep 1819
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
4
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/110 from Sir James Edward Smith, Birmingham, [Warwickshire], to Pleasance Smith, Lowestoft, Suffolk (27 September 1819)
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Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Birmingham, Warwickshire
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location:
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Summary:
Account of his journey from Norwich, [Norfolk], to Birmingham: unwittingly shared the coach from Newmarket to Cambridge with Mr Hustler of Trinity [College], one of the adverse tutors [to Smith's Cambridge professorship candidacy]; delight at seeing the Beauchamp Chapel in St Mary's Church, Warwick; Birmingham feels a dirty and close town. His first lecture at 7 this evening; no anxiety; the room not painted for fear of his inconvenience; attended sermons and meeting by Dr [James] Yates and Mr S W Brown
Letter date:
27 Sep 1819
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.237
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Related Material | Smith, J E, and Monk, J H, [1818-1819]. "[A review of] Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship, by Sir James Edward Smith ... [And] A vindication of the University of Cambridge from the reflections of ... Smith ... by ... James Henry Monk." |
| 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. |
