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From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
James Smith
Date:
5 Aug 1792
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/SM/4, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

His plans for visiting Norwich; will attend marriage of Miss Haworth in Enfield first. Account of his time at Frogmore [organising the Queen's herbarium]: saw the Queen [Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)] only briefly as they were "taken up with the camp & the Duchess of York"; he has been invited again in October; his opinion of Windsor Castle and the court; did not visit the camp on account of the "hurry & heat" and a difficulty he lay under with the Queen's housekeeper.

Lady Rockingham has acquired the works of the late Bishop of St Asaph, Dr [Jonathan] Shipley [(1714-1788)], with which he is much delighted. Commends the subscription to assist Poland, "even 2 of Mr [Edmund] Burke's [(1730-1797), politician] toad-eaters here applaud it".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London