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GB-110/JES/COR/19/114
Title
Sir James Edward Smith, Clapton, [Middlesex], to Pleasance Smith
Letter date
7 May 1821
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/114 from Sir James Edward Smith, Clapton, [Middlesex], to Pleasance Smith (7 May 1821)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/114 from Sir James Edward Smith, Clapton, [Middlesex], to Pleasance Smith (7 May 1821) Close
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from:
Clapton, Middlesex
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Summary:
A dinner with Correa, [Robert] Brown, [Charles] Konig, and Hare; Mr Forster thinks Correa's mental powers are failing. Correa's opinion of America. Walked to [Stoke] Newington and visited the Aikins, Mrs Barbauld, Mrs Lee, and Revd Mr Bransby. Unable to see [Nathaniel] Kindersley [Smith's cousin] before he goes to India. Visited Loddiges [plant nursery] where they have raised hundreds of 'Rhododendrum arboreum' from his seeds. His future activities. Has not heard anything yet about their journey to Southampton.
[Explanatory notes in pencil, by another hand, on first folio]
[Letter incomplete: folio[s] presumed destroyed]
Letter date:
7 May 1821
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.244
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| UNSPECIFIED | 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. |
