| Ref No | GB-110/JES/COR/11/23 |
| Title | Samuel Goodenough to James Edward Smith, 12 Marlborough Street, [London] |
| Description | Sympathies on death of Smith's father; writes on the support provided by harmonious families in difficult times.
His opinion on the French Revolution: his politics lie in "a small compass of Wiggism" and as to his religious ones "people have no right to practice disobedience & impiety towards God - it makes no part of a monarchial or republican cause". Believes the King of France was murdered and that nothing in him deserved death and that it was a "monstrous apostasy in the low people who got into power making it as a law that there was no God [...], vote the Bible a lie & kill those who believed it". Will have a copy of his sermon delivered to Smith [see RelatedMaterial below]. |
| Date | 15 Mar 1795 |
| Level | Item |
| Extent | 4 pp |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | Goodenough, S, (1795). "A sermon [on Psal xvii 13] preached before the Hon house of Commons Feb 25, 1795, being a day of solemn fasting and humiliation" London; please note not available in Linnean Society Library but available in British Library. |
| Notes | Smith replied 29 Apr [1795] |
| PrevRefNo | 11.44 |
| Finding_Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |