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GB-110/JES/COR/19/113
Title
Sir James Edward Smith, Old Hummums, Covent Garden, London, to Pleasance Smith
Letter date
3 Nov 1819
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/113 from Sir James Edward Smith, Old Hummums, Covent Garden, London, to Pleasance Smith (3 November 1819)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/113 from Sir James Edward Smith, Old Hummums, Covent Garden, London, to Pleasance Smith (3 November 1819) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
London
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Summary:
His "adventures" have been "uninterruptedly prosperous". His last lecture at Birmingham the most well attended. Account of his journey from Birmingham to London, via Stratford-upon-Avon, saw Shakespeare's house; Oxford, where he saw Prince Leopold dubbed LLD, and worked in Sherardian herbarium, dined with Dr [George] Williams, who is pleased by his pamphlets and the Oxford people all flattered. Called at [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert's and heard that Mrs Lochée died 1 October and that Mrs [Catherine] Lambert deranged. On 1 November was unanimously elected Professor of Botany at the Royal Institution. Attended Horticultural Society and Linnean Society meetings.
[Letter incomplete: folio[s] presumed destroyed]
Letter date:
3 Nov 1819
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.243
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. |
