Ref NoGB-110/JES/COR/12/24
TitleSamuel Goodenough to Sir James Edward Smith, Norwich, [Norfolk]
DescriptionConstant rain in Cumberland after a substantial dry period. Admires agricultural meetings, especially when they are purely agricultural like [Thomas William] Coke's, and not politicised as they are in Cumberland. Pleased that the House of Buckingham has "so fair a promise in Lord Nugent".

Fears potential civil unrest in the countryside following the harvest as the wages of labourers have not fallen, so farmers will be forced to employ fewer hands and in consequence many will be unemployed. Goodenough thinks it better for all to be employed regardless of the conditions, notes that manufacturers' wages are uncommonly low. Does not like either the Indian or Algerian wars [Third Anglo-Maratha war, 1816-1819, and Bombardment of Algiers, 1816]; has little confidence in Lord Moira's judgement [Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754-1826), Governor-General of India 1813-1823].

Goodenough's son, Edmund, had a troublesome rheumatic fever but is now recovered. Edmund went to Malvern where he was puzzled by the variety of 'Ervum tetrasperum' with footstalks with only one flower. Goodenough does not recollect seeing Smith's variety of '[Iris] xiphium'.
Date26 Jul 1816
LevelItem
Extent4 pp
LanguageEnglish
NotesSmith replied 29 Aug [1816]
Publn_NoteSmith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 1, pp.598-599.
PrevRefNo12.41
Creator NameGoodenough, Samuel (1743-1827)
Access_StatusOpen
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
GB/110/1/35Goodenough; Samuel (1743-1827); Bishop of Carlisle1743-1827
GB/110/1/62Coke; Thomas William (1754-1842); 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham; politician and agricultural reformer1754-1842
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