Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, [Norfolk], to Sir James Edward Smith

Summary

Thanks Smith for pamphlet and papers on the Norwich Literary Institution. Offers to lend Smith Savi's 'Observationes in varias Trifoliorum species'. Remarks on Charles Butler [(1750-1832), Roman Catholic layman and lawyer]. Admiration for William Roscoe, desires to get him interested in Greek independence. Thanks Smith for his desire to assist in the Greek cause and suggests the establishment of a committee in Norwich to that end.

Manuscript copies, in Barker's hand, of a circular from a committee in Brighton in support of Greek independence, and of a letter received from William Thornton of Washington, USA, on the same.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN1753

From

Edmund Henry Barker

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

13 Oct 1823

Sent from

Thetford, Norfolk

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/2/3, The Linnean Society of London

Language

English

Contributor

The Linnean Society of London[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith, The Linnean Society's Archive Catalogue.