From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
16 May 1827
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/12/110, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Cannot attend next week's Linnean Society anniversary meeting owing to illness and prior committment to attend two Episcopal meetings. Has not seen anything of Sir T[homas] Cullum or [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert. Fears he will not be able to go to Rose Castle this year, and Mrs Goodenough is exceedingly ill.
[Note by Pleasance Smith] last letter Goodenough sent to Smith before dying in Worthing, [Sussex], on 12 August 1827, buried in the North Cloister of Westminster Abbey close to his friend Dr [William] Markham, Archbishop of York [(1719-1807)]
[Letter possibly incomplete: address label is on a separate piece of paper, text of the letter appears extant]
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London