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HOUG/H/A/20
Title
Facsimile copies of letter from Sydney Smith to Mrs [Norton?] Longman
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- 11 Nov. 1833 [postmark] (Creation)
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2 folded sheets.
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Postmarked Maddox Street, addressed to Mrs N. Longman, Garden Mount, Hampstead. - Submits a humorous plan of a dinner of insects and bugs - 'Cock Chafer Soup', 'Stewed Slugs' etc - which he thinks will be agreeable to ‘Kirby & Spence’ [the authors of An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols., 1815–26, which was published by Longmans.
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A copy of this letter is bound in after page 50 of Crewe MS/18, Transactions of the Philobiblon Society.
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Possibly addressed to Mary, wife of Thomas Norton Longman, though their Hampstead house was usually known as 'Mount Grove'
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Corner of letter bearing stamps cut away.