From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
Date:
11 May 1790
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/40, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Glad that Woodward was not more seriously injured in his coach accident; now thinks of their parting jokes as "almost criminal"; hopes Woodward prosecutes the coach operator for taking so many people on board. Reveals when he was 20 years old it was discovered that he had broken his collarbone at some point in his childhood. He was recently at Sir Joseph Banks' when [Charles Godfrey] Woide [(1725-1790)] of the [British] Museum suffered an apoplectic fit; he died shortly after.
[Letter incomplete: second folio cropped, only three lines of text remain]
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London