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Verlag: Adams Square Edinburgh; 29 August, 1825
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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For the recipient Samuel Parks, internationally-renowned chemist and member of twenty-one learned societies, see his entry in the Oxford DNB, which explains his presence in Edinburgh at the time of the letter by explaining that it was during a visit to the city in June 1825 that Parkes 'was attacked by a painful disorder, which proved fatal'. 1p, 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf, which is addressed by Duncan to 'Samuel Parks [sic] Esqr | 59 Lothian Street'. Duncan writes that he has 'searched, but in vain, for a printed copy of the discourse which I delivered to the Horticultural Society when their gold medal was awarded to you'. (Parkes's essay on the advantages of employing common salt in gardening obtained the annual Gold Medal of the Horticultural Society of Scotland in 1819.) He would however 'fain hope, that Mr Neil, upon further search, may yet be able to find a copy for you.' Meanwhile Duncan is sending 'the No of our Memor[andu]m, which contains your paper on Salt together with my discourses for three different years'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.
Verlag: 4 June ; Edinburgh, 1827
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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According to Duncan's entry in the Oxford DNB, 'In 1809 he founded the Caledonian Horticultural Society, and in later years he was actively occupied in promoting the establishment of a public experimental garden.' 2pp, 4to. In good condition, on aged paper, creased. The recipient is not named, and the letter begins: 'Although I have already often interrupted important business of State, yet I trust you will once more, forgive an Octogenarian, when he can plead, that his principal temptation, to transgression, is an earnest desire to promote the publick good -'. He recommends to the recipient's attention 'the enclosed printed paper, respecting the Caledonian Horticultural Society'. If the recipient, as 'a member of the Kings Cabinet Council', can be 'in any degree instrumental in getting Mr Neil, Secretary to the Caledonian Horticultural Society, appointed Professor of Horticulture in the University of Edinburgh', he will, Duncan is convinced, 'do an essential servive to the whole British Empire'.