From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
7 Oct 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/101, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Imagines Smith enjoying delights of Allerton Hall, [Liverpool, home of William Roscoe]. In "raptures" with [Edward] Gibbon's [(1737-1794)] "Memoirs", discusses the work and Gibbon in detail. News of their Norfolk friends. Sending blond herrings to Lady Anson [Smith's host at Shugborough, Staffordshire].
[Letter incomplete: folio[s] missing, presumed destroyed]
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London