James Edward Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London

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Ref No GB-110/JES/JS/8
Title James Edward Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London
Letter date 29 Aug 1802
Author(s) Sir James Edward Smith 1759-1828
Number of Pages 4

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GB-110/JES/JS/8 from James Edward Smith, Lowestoft, [Suffolk], to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London (29 August 1802)

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

His health much better since coming here, though still cannot read or write for more than half an hour at a time. Sowerby made a mistake in ordering the indexes sheet of "English botany" to be printed now as he had enough for September. Intends to spend a week with [Dawson] Turner at Yarmouth, [Norfolk], shortly. Requests copies of "English botany" from no 81 onwards, for an American friend.
Would like to help Sowerby with his intended book on minerals but has "never attended much to that part of Natural History", and concerned it will delay Sowerby in his work with "Flora Graeca", which the executors want finished as quickly as possible; Smith will never consent to any other artist being employed, though [Thomas] Platt [(d 1842), one of John Sibthorp's executors, supervised the publication of "Flora Graeca"] thinks Sowerby is not progressing as fast as he might. Suggests new wording for Sowerby's advertisement for a mineralogist.

Letter date: 29 Aug 1802
Languages: English
Additional Information:
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Related MaterialSmith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English botany" London. Sibthorp, J, (1806-1837). "Flora Graeca", London: Taylor.