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

Summary

Sir James [Edward Smith's] health considerably improved and muscle strength regained since they met at Saxmundham, [Suffolk]. Smith constantly working at his "[English] Flora". If Lady Cullum were Smith's patient he would prescribe her James's powders for her feverish symptoms. Read of Sir William Watson's death [(1744-1824), physician and naturalist]. Regrets that Mrs Cullum [Cullum's daughter-in-law] is still ill; recommends she walk up and down the "hanging tower at Pisa". Enjoying reading Lady Morgan's [(1781-1859)] "tour in Italy". Their friend Miss Trafford in Florence accompanying the Queen and Princesses of Haiti [Marie Louise Christophe (1778-1851), wife of Henri I, and Françoise-Améthyste (d 1831) and Athénaïs (d 1838)].

Letter details

Record number

LINNEAN895

From

Pleasance Smith

To

Sir Thomas Gery Cullum

Date

2 Dec 1824

Sent from

Norwich, Norfolk

Sent to

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Source of text

GB-110/JES/COR/13/87, 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