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From:
Sir Abraham Hume
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[May 1818]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/7/46, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Indignant at failure of Smith's campaign.

Business card for "Lawford, Fletcher & Co, Stock & Share Brokers", and with "M Wood" handwritten on recto.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Martin Davy
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
3 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/7/44, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Believes all hope of future success destroyed [with Smith being turned down for professorship], fears it will reflect badly on the university. Asks Smith to recommend Sedgewick to Sir Joseph [Banks] as best candidate for the professorship.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
4 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/114, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Asks when Smith can visit Liverpool, as [Thomas Stewart] Traill [(1781-1862), physician] finishes his course this week and Mr Campbell is not free to lecture until latter end of June, so the interval time is free for Smith's lectures. Explains the lecturer's fees, which are based on two guineas for each subscriber, with a certain amount being guaranteed. Will endeavour to have Smith nominated Professor of Botany. His business affairs continue to improve and will soon be reestablished.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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
From:
William Webb
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/7/45, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Smith's candidature for Botany Professorship at Cambridge University. Regrets Smith's failure and largely approves of his pamphlet ["Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship"]. Wanted to speak to Smith about the Copyright Bill. The Master of St John's is Smith's "great opponent" [James Wood (1760-1839)].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Olof Peter Swartz
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/25/48, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending publications for Smith and the Linnean Society, including most recent memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, first fasciculus of his "Lichenes Americani", dissertations on genus 'Daphne', and [Erik] Acharius' "Synopsis Lichenum".

Requests Smith to compare with Linnaean herbarium species of 'Veronica', 'Galium', and 'Sedum' he has placed within volume of memoirs. Praises Smith's ["Review of the Modern State of Botany"] that appeared in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia" ["Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica"]. Asks if the botanical articles in Rees' "Cyclopedia" can be obtained separately.

Observations on roses he is sending Smith.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 May 1818
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/115, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Read Smith's Cambridge pamphlet with "equal impatience & pleasure"; believes it will eventually gain him the position [of botany professor]. Transcribes notice for the "Liverpool Mercury" announcing Smith's upcoming course of lectures on botany and vegetable physiology at Liverpool Royal Institution; requests further details from Smith; the subscription for non-proprieters will be two guineas. Sorry to hear Lady [Pleasance] Smith will not be accompanying Smith to Liverpool.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London