| Ref No | GB-110/JES/COR/17/135 |
| Title | Sir James Edward Smith, Saxmundham, [Suffolk], to William Roscoe, Toxteth Park, [near Liverpool, Lancashire] |
| Description | Staying with Lady [Pleasance] Smith's aunt, whose house and garden is a "specimen of what one reads about in English novels of the best age, before the history of manners & character gave way to the picturesque or the frightful", although the journey caused his fever to return, which was treated with bleeding and James's powder.
Printing new editions of his "Compendium florae Britannicae" and "Introduction [to Botany]", and anticipates the continuation of "English Flora" to be "merely a pleasure & amusement". Resolved to limit his letter writing, "especially in reply to foolish schemes & questions about botany"; he is now being solicited about a Norwich Botanic Garden, certain it will not amount to anything. Criticises missing date in Roscoe's last letter.
Received from Paris "Annales de las Societe Linneenne de Paris", containing an eulogy of Broussonet. Corrêa has died at Lisbon; he had been a "little perverted by French botanists" and developed a "jealous twist" against Englishmen, especially Sir Joseph Banks. |
| Date | 13 Jul 1824 |
| Level | Item |
| Extent | 2 pp |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | For Roscoe's letter of 7 June 1824, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/17/134.
Smith, J E, and HOFFMANN G F, (1825). "Compendium florae Britannicae; Compendium florae Britannicae." Londinum: [printer:] Davis, 4th ed.
Smith, J E, (1807). "An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany." London: Longman.
Smith, J E, Hooker, W J, and Berkeley, M, (1824-1828). "The English flora", London: Longman. |
| PrevRefNo | 17.272 |
| 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 | Smith, Sir James Edward (1759-1828) |
| Access_Status | Open |