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LINNEAN1155

From:
Andrew Fountaine
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Feb 1817
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/111, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Induced to part with the papers of [Sir Edward] Coke [(1552-1634), lawyer, legal writer, and politician, ancestor of Thomas William Coke] by the propriety of Coke's wish to possess the papers of the "great founder of the splendor of his family". Satisfied with the value Smith set on them.

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LINNEAN1156

From:
Andrew Fountaine
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
22 Mar 1817
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/112, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Confirms details for payment of £100 by [Thomas William] Coke for the papers of [Sir Edward] Coke [(1552-1634), lawyer, legal writer, and politician, ancestor of Thomas William Coke]. Thanks for Smith's London invitation but his father's health prevents him from leaving Norfolk all spring. Pleased to hear of an improvement in [William] Roscoe's affairs [following a bankruptcy in 1816].

Comments that whilst the Earl of Leicester [Thomas Coke (1697-1759)] left Holkham "magnificently decorated", Coke is right to make improvements. Duke of Bedford [John Russell, 6th Duke] has done himself honour by presenting a copy of his book ["Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis" (1816)] "to the first botanist in Europe".

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