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GB-110/JES/COR/20/47
Title
Dr J Baker, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, Mrs Beveridge's, Patrick Steet, Edinburgh
Letter date
29 Aug 1782
Author(s)
J Baker
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/20/47 from Dr J Baker, Norwich, [Norfolk], to James Edward Smith, Mrs Beveridge's, Patrick Steet, Edinburgh (29 August 1782)
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Item Type:
Document
From:
Baker, J
Sent from:
Norwich, Norfolk
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Sent to location:
Edinburgh
Summary:
Introduces Mr Cooper, who has left the Church of England to study physic. Asks if Dr [William] Cullen [(1710-1790), chemist and physician] proposes publishing another volume of his "First Lines [of the Practice of Physic" (1777-1784)]; asks after progress of Ferguson's ["History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic" (1783)] and Dr [William] Robertson's [(1721-1793), historian and Church of Scotland minister] "History of America" [(1777)]. Comments on "savage" Bruno. Norwich news.
Letter date:
29 Aug 1782
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
20.74
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Additional | Smith replied 18 Feb 1783 |
| 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. |
