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Name Woods, Joseph, botanist

1. Add MS 60745

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60745
Title:
SYDNEY SMIRKE: 286 letters from architects, artists and public figures, mostly to Sydney Smirke (b.1798, d.1877), architect of the British Museum Reading Room; 1793-1872. See also Add. 59847, 60756. Owned by F. R. Jemmett (see inside front cover). Purchased of Winifred A. Myers, Nov. 1979. Paper; ff. i+377. 201 x 325mm.
Scope & Content:
Sydney Smirke, architect: Letters to Sydney Smirke: 1793-1872. includes: f. 1 Sir Jeffrey Wyatt, afterwards Wyatville; architect: Letter to S. Smirke: 1817. f. 2 Sir Robert Smirke, architect: Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA: Letter to Sir Robert Smirke from Joseph Mallord William Turner: n.d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1793-1872
Extent:
1 item

2. Egerton MS 2851

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2851
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE Of distinguished botanists, chiefly French and English, consisting for the most part of letters from Philip Barker Webb to H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon, and from others to the same and to Webb; 1784-1860. The names of all the writers are given in the Index. Among them are Sir John Sinclair, Candolle, Berthelot, Sir R. H. Schomburgk, Sir W. J. Hooker, and Prouvensal de Saint Hilaire. A few engraved portraits are included. Paper; ff. 228. Quarto. From the Farnborough Fund.
Scope & Content:
Botany: Letters, autographs and portraits botanists: 1784-1860, and n.d. includes: f. 1 Jonathan Stokes: Letter to C. L. L'Heritier de Brutelle: 1784.f. 3 James Lee, nurseryman: Letter to botanist in Paris: 1786.f. 4 Samuel Foart Simmons, Physician Extraordinary to George III: Letter to P. M. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1784-1860
Extent:
1 item