Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bury [St Edmunds, Suffolk], to Pleasance Smith, Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]

Summary

Pleased by the visit of Smith's relation, Frederick Smith. [Thomas] Lister Parker [(1779-1858), antiquary] visited and mentioned the "great pine", believes branches and cones have been sent to [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert. Wishes her husband [Sir James Edward Smith] and himself had been young and well enough to attend first meetings of the season of the Horticultural, Linnean, and Royal Societies. His son and family are to winter at Nice but concerned that from [Thomas] Martyn's report of the weather in Nice in his "Tour through Italy" (1787) it will not help the ill Mrs Cullum. Returns basket with young pheasant.

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN804

From

Sir Thomas Gery Cullum

To

Pleasance Smith

Date

4 Nov 1827

Sent from

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Sent to

Norwich, Norfolk

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/13/111, 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.

• Pleasance Smith
• Sir Thomas Gery Cullum