Identified a 'Senecio lividus' in furze from figure in "English Botany", encloses specimen. Four line poem on himself entitled "The Ruling Passion", on love of sports in spite of ill health, dated 1821.
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Identified a 'Senecio lividus' in furze from figure in "English Botany", encloses specimen. Four line poem on himself entitled "The Ruling Passion", on love of sports in spite of ill health, dated 1821.
Staying at Mr Lee's at Edgbaston: his and Dr Johnstone's families and homes. His seventh lecture this evening. Arrangements for their visit to Holkham [Hall, Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke]. Bought cutlery.
[Letter incomplete: folio[s] presumed destroyed]
Exhilarated by the very full audiences at his lectures, which finish on Saturday. People he has stayed with. Details of his intended return journey. Enquired after pumps; his findings. Received no letters or plants from Lord Mountnorris [George Annesley]. His efforts to reconciliate Miss Coke and her father [Thomas William Coke]; conflicts in that family.
His journey to Holkham [home of Thomas William Coke]. Lists the guests, including the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)]. The Fens in high beauty, with trees still in leaf. Transcribes epitaph Edward Richards, "an ideot", in Edgbaston churchyard, [near Birmingham, Warwickshire], in danger of entire destruction.
Thanks for Smith's letter, received via [Georg] Panzer. Shortly sending 'Aconite' and 'Delphinium' specimens for Smith's opinion, with one set intended for Smith's herbarium and the other to be returned. Introduces Dr Pradius, bearer of this letter.
Received gift of four curious gold coins from Mr Barnwell. Has lately visited Lowestoft, Birmingham, and Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] but suffering from a pulmonary attack brought on by the travelling. Miss [Elizabeth] Coke engaged to [John] Spencer-Stanhope [(1787-1873)] of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire. Pleased with the society of Birmingham.