Elizabeth Fry, Plashet House, East Ham, [Essex], to Sir James Edward Smith

Summary

Thanks for present of book [unnamed but possibly "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany"] which she hopes to read with her young people, "happens the very thing that I should like for them to amuse and to instruct at the same time".

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN2692

From

Elizabeth Fry

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

25 Aug 1823

Sent from

East Ham, Essex

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/4/110, 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.