Charlotte Smith, 3 Duke Street, Portland Chapel, [London], to James Edward Smith

Summary

Thanks for Smith's reply. Would like to make Smith's acquaintance in London when he next comes for his annual visit, although she is compelled to leave the country in May. Took note of Smith's hint of introducing botany into a novel although believes modern tastes in fiction for "gigantic and impossible horrors" will not make it appear vapid enough to the "admirers of spectre novels and cavern adventures", nonetheless has included a little in her latest [presumably "The Young Philosopher" (1798)].

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN3319

From

Charlotte Smith

To

Sir James Edward Smith

Date

15 Mar 1798

Sent from

London

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/9/54, 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.

• Charlotte Smith
• Sir James Edward Smith