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LINNEAN1787

From:
Francis Boott
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
16 Mar 1819
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/60, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has returned from Paris. Comments on Lady Smith's "practical defense" of Smith's cause in the Cambridge dispute. Is sending part 10 of [Alexander von] Humboldt and [Aimé Bonpland's] "Nova genera". Wants introductions to [Thomas William] Coke for Mr Williams, an American friend, brother of Samuel Williams of Finsbury Square, "the greatest banker from America in Europe", and Mr Paine, a cousin of Williams. Elected FLS.

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The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1788

From:
Francis Boott
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Nov 1819
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/61, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending a few plants from America but has been prevented from collecting more, promises to send more in future years. Enquires after Lady Smith's mother, news of his own mother, "subdued by grief"by the death of his father, equating her to poetry of Byron.

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The Linnean Society of London
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