From:
James Mackintosh
To:
Unknown
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 168, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
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Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Two pages of [James] Sowerby's account with Smith, the first dated 23 January 1794 and written by James Smith, detailing monies owed to Sowerby, and the second covering 1798-1799 and written by James Edward Smith's, detailing monies owed to Smith.
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Details of [John] Sibthorp's journeys and collections. Convinced the specimens Smith believes are missing are merely mislaid as duplicates of every uncommon species were collected, one of each being given to Sir Joseph Banks. Recommends contacting [Ferdinand Lucas] Bauer [(1760-1826) botanical artist] for information on plants from first tour in 1787. Details of methodology of Sibthorp's journals and provenance of Dacian, Olympian and Cretan collections. The last tour's collection was given to Dr Wenman although uncertain whether he rearranged or almagamated any of it, in addition to this also collections of plants from Zante and Maina, as well as collections of insects, fish, birds, shells, quadrupeds, and seeds. Smith should have two large and distinct collections of Greek plants from the two tours. Believes if Bauer cannot execute "Flora Graeca" on his own terms he will decline it, citing in part the "sacrafice of liberty in so tedious a work" and the problem of finding good assistants. If he did take on the work would take girls to be his assistants "who are more manageable", reminds him of George Forster's plan to translate English works into German "with the assistance of females".
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A title page of Volume 15: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith with Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th baronet and Mary Watson-Wentworth, marchioness of Rockingham
Note on Mary Watson-Wentworth's grandparents and pedigree.
A title page of Volume 16: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Mariamne and Thomas Johnes and Andrew Fountaine
A title page of Volume 17: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and William Roscoe
A title page of Volume 18: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
Three title pages of Volume 19: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and his father, James Smith, his mother, Frances Smith, and wife, Pleasance Smith
A title page and contents page of Volume 2 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 3 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 4 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 5 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 6 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 7 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence as well as a portrait of Thomas Martyn and a note on the correspondence from Thomas Martyn
A title page and contents page of Volume 8 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence