From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
9 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/136, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Hymn written by Smith, 6 stanzas. Never saw [Aylmer Bourke] so struck with anything; they showed it to [William Lisle] Bowles [(1762-1850)], the poet, who was "profuse in commendation" and lamented that the church did not use such.
[Letter incomplete: this is the second folio of letter, the proceeding folio presumed destroyed. Fragments from other letters have been pasted to bottom of verso of folio]
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London