Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters. and Blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
"Report of council with Cheyenne and Arapahoe chiefs and warriors, brought to Denver by Major Wynkoop; taken down by U.S. Indian agent Simeon Whitely as it progressed": 4 p., at end. and "Statement of Mrs. Ewbanks, giving an account of her captivity among the Indians": 1 leaf at end.
Subject (Name):
United States.--Congress.--Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.--Massacre of Cheyenne Indians
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians--Wars, Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1864, Indian captivities, Indians of North America--Wars--1862-1865, Indians of North America--Wars--Colorado, and Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864
