Sir James Edward Smith, 13 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, [London], to Pleasance Smith, at Mrs E Clarke's, Saxmundham, Suffolk

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Ref No GB-110/JES/COR/19/131
Title Sir James Edward Smith, 13 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, [London], to Pleasance Smith, at Mrs E Clarke's, Saxmundham, Suffolk
Letter date 4 Jun 1825
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/COR/19/131 from Sir James Edward Smith, 13 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, [London], to Pleasance Smith, at Mrs E Clarke's, Saxmundham, Suffolk (4 June 1825)

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Item Type: Document
From: Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent from: London
To: Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location: Saxmundham, Suffolk
Summary:

Plants for lectures supplied by [Edward] Forster's garden and Loddige's [nursery]. Finished on Thursday to a "thunder of applause"; paid 100 guineas. Visited Horticultural Society gardens and spent pleasant time with [John] Lindley [(1799-1865), botanist], showing that their quarrel is "more than made up". Often breakfasts at the Menzies. [Samuel] Goodenough approves of next fasciculus of "Flora Graeca". Disappointed by Bullock's Mexican curiosities. Met Sir Astley Cooper at Saville Onley's, he continually reads his "Introduction to Botany". A party at the Blackwells; George Blackwell leaving the country for 2 years. His health generally better but his old complaint increased; Dr Davy prescribes Ipecacuanla with laudanum. Attempted and failed to get [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert to be accommodating regarding Linnean Society chair.

Letter date: 4 Jun 1825
Languages: English
Prev Ref No: 19.273
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Related MaterialSibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor. Smith, J E, (1807). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman.
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.