| Ref No | GB-110/JES/COR/12/45 |
| Title | Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith |
| Description | Goodenough's daughter, Charlotte, recovered from her typhus fever.
Informed that it was someone at Oxford, and not [James Henry] Monk [(1784-1856), Cambridge regius professor of Greek], who wrote the critical article on Smith in the "Quarterly Review", but fears Monk's party against Smith is increasing [in his campaign for botany professorship]. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert indignant that the Linnean Dining Club continues to be held at the inferior British Coffee House. Goodenough fears the Horticultural Society comes too close to the Linnean Society and may provoke jealousies [the Horticultural Society hired rooms at the Linnean Society for a time]. |
| Date | 8 Apr 1819 |
| Level | Item |
| Extent | 4 pp |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | Monk, J H, [1819]. "[A review of] Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its botanical professorship, by Sir James Edward Smith ... [And] A vindication of the University of Cambridge from the reflections of ... Smith ... by ... James Henry Monk". |
| PrevRefNo | 12.82 |
| Creator Name | Goodenough, Samuel (1743-1827) |
| Access_Status | Open |