From:
James Sowerby
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Jan 1810
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/25/63, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends "English botany" as usual but late, and adds profile of [Peter Simon] Pallas as a present from [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert, who has given the plate to Linnean Society. Sends a couple of drawings for "English botany" and some of Smith's specimens and drawings. He has begun some things for "Icones pictae", asks if Smith wishes to go on with it. Hopes to get faster out of debt this year. Encloses £20 bank note and package from [William] Borrer.
Sending profile of Pallas, plants, and drawings until some "Flora Graeca" is sent.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London