John Hawkins, 46 Conduit Street, London, to James Edward Smith, 7 St Vincent's Parade, Hot Wells, Bristol

Summary

Encloses authority [extant, as copy] for Smith to take possession of [John Sibthorp's] collections; refers Smith to Lady Sewell and Professor Williams for the journals and other papers.

[Letter to Dr Marlow, President of St John's College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford, from John Hawkins and Thomas Platt (d 1842), one of John Sibthorp's executors, supervised the publication of "Flora Graeca", copy in Smith's hand]: requests that Smith be given all materials required for completion and publication of Sibthorp's "Flora Graeca".

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN2176

From

John Hawkins

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

17 May [1799]

Sent from

London

Sent to

Bristol

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/22/95, 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.

• John Hawkins
• Sir James Edward Smith