From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
7 Dec 1809
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/85, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Thanks Smith for turkeys. Grateful for assistance Smith has given to Mr Home. Postscript of a short Christmas poem by Thomas Tusser, taken from Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry", remarks that it was first printed in 1557.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London