| Ref No | GB-110/JES/COR/17/115 |
| Title | William Roscoe, Liverpool, [Lancashire], to Sir James Edward Smith, 16 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London |
| Description | Read Smith's Cambridge pamphlet with "equal impatience & pleasure"; believes it will eventually gain him the position [of botany professor]. Transcribes notice for the "Liverpool Mercury" announcing Smith's upcoming course of lectures on botany and vegetable physiology at Liverpool Royal Institution; requests further details from Smith; the subscription for non-proprieters will be two guineas. Sorry to hear Lady [Pleasance] Smith will not be accompanying Smith to Liverpool. |
| Date | 21 May 1818 |
| Level | Item |
| Extent | 4 pp |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | Smith, J E, and Monk, J H [1818]. "[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". |
| Notes | Smith replied 26 May [1818] |
| PrevRefNo | 17.233 |
| 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. |
| Creator Name | Roscoe, William (1753-1831) |
| Access_Status | Open |