Aylmer Bourke Lambert, London, to James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]

Summary

Has dined several times with Sir Abraham and Amelia Hume, on the last occassion Lady de Clifford was there dividing a box of Cape bulbs. Hopes to see Smith's paper in tomorrow's "Monthly Magazine". [Richard Salisbury] "begins to expect there has [sic] been some enquiries about Lady Essex's nonentities"; he and [Robert] Brown now believe that Salisbury stole his figure of 'Byblis' from Sir Joseph [Banks'] [Salisbury had claimed that he figured the Australian plants 'Corylus', 'Psychilis', and others from Lady Essex's garden, who never had the plants].

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN2997

From

Aylmer Bourke Lambert

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

31 Mar 1808

Sent from

London

Sent to

Norwich, Norfolk

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/6/63, 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.

• Aylmer Bourke Lambert
• Sir James Edward Smith