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LINNEAN1571

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
1 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/122, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Staying at Mr Lee's at Edgbaston: his and Dr Johnstone's families and homes. His seventh lecture this evening. Arrangements for their visit to Holkham [Hall, Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke]. Bought cutlery.

[Letter incomplete: folio[s] presumed destroyed]

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The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1110

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/72, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Identified a 'Senecio lividus' in furze from figure in "English Botany", encloses specimen. Four line poem on himself entitled "The Ruling Passion", on love of sports in spite of ill health, dated 1821.

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The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN3264

From:
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
8 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/8/98, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Smith's letter, received via [Georg] Panzer. Shortly sending 'Aconite' and 'Delphinium' specimens for Smith's opinion, with one set intended for Smith's herbarium and the other to be returned. Introduces Dr Pradius, bearer of this letter.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1572

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
8 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/123, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Exhilarated by the very full audiences at his lectures, which finish on Saturday. People he has stayed with. Details of his intended return journey. Enquired after pumps; his findings. Received no letters or plants from Lord Mountnorris [George Annesley]. His efforts to reconciliate Miss Coke and her father [Thomas William Coke]; conflicts in that family.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1573

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
20 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/124, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

His journey to Holkham [home of Thomas William Coke]. Lists the guests, including the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)]. The Fens in high beauty, with trees still in leaf. Transcribes epitaph Edward Richards, "an ideot", in Edgbaston churchyard, [near Birmingham, Warwickshire], in danger of entire destruction.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN881

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
Date:
28 Oct 1822
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/74, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Received gift of four curious gold coins from Mr Barnwell. Has lately visited Lowestoft, Birmingham, and Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] but suffering from a pulmonary attack brought on by the travelling. Miss [Elizabeth] Coke engaged to [John] Spencer-Stanhope [(1787-1873)] of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire. Pleased with the society of Birmingham.

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