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Sender: Dalton, James (Rev.)
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 32
Date(s): 15 Feb 1802 - 11 Nov 1815
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: James Dalton, M.A., F.L.D., Yorkshire naturalist,was also rector of Copgrove near Knaresborough and then of Croft near Darlington. The letters to James Sowerby, naturalist and artist,were sent to his home in Lambeth and contain references to Dalton's wide ranging interests: fungi, birds, lichens, mosses and insects. Dalton orders a microscope from Sowerby and obtains many specimens for him.
Sender: Larcom, John
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Mar 1822
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Larcum, (a naturalist from Malton) concerning a box of fossils he has sent to Sowerby
Sender: Murray, Peter M.D.
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Sep 1806
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Murray, a naturalist from Harrogate, has found a rare beetle. Mentions a sulphur spring at Low Harrogate. Also a reference to Dalton.
Sender: Teesdale, Rob
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 3
Date(s): 22 Apr 1797 - 27 Apr 1801
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Teesdale, an author and naturalist from Beverley, is sending specimens of plants to Sowerby
Sender: Brunton, W
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 May ??
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Note: Sending plant specimens collected near Ripon,to Sowerby. Refers to Dalton's having first pointed out one of the plants to him.
Sender: Dalton, Marianne
Recipient: Sowerby, James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Nov [n.y.]
Location: BC MS 19c Dalton
Category: 17c2 Female
Note: James Dalton's daughter, concerning her "conchological amusements" and asking his advice on the identification of some shells she is sending. Draft reply to her letter on one of the pages from one of James Sowerby's sons.