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GB-110/JES/COR/19/136
Title
Sir James Edward Smith to Pleasance Smith, R Reeve's Esq, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Letter date
9 May 1818
Author(s)
Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages
2
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GB-110/JES/COR/19/136 from Sir James Edward Smith to Pleasance Smith, R Reeve's Esq, Lowestoft, Suffolk (9 May 1818)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/19/136 from Sir James Edward Smith to Pleasance Smith, R Reeve's Esq, Lowestoft, Suffolk (9 May 1818) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Smith, Sir James Edward
To:
Smith, Pleasance
Sent to location:
Lowestoft, Suffolk
Summary:
Hymn written by Smith, 6 stanzas. Never saw [Aylmer Bourke] so struck with anything; they showed it to [William Lisle] Bowles [(1762-1850)], the poet, who was "profuse in commendation" and lamented that the church did not use such.
[Letter incomplete: this is the second folio of letter, the proceeding folio presumed destroyed. Fragments from other letters have been pasted to bottom of verso of folio]
Letter date:
9 May 1818
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
19.28
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. |
