Sowerby family letter, 18th century. Letter to a Mrs Reynolds, held in the archives of the family of her son-in-law English naturalist James Sowerby (

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Sowerby family letter, 18th century. Letter to a Mrs Reynolds, held in the archives of the family of her son-in-law English naturalist James Sowerby (1757-1822) and his son James de Carle Sowerby (1787-1871). The elder Sowerby's first wife died in 1815 and he remarried in 1819 to Maria Catherine Reynolds. Maria was the daughter of an Admiral Reynolds and his wife Mrs Reynolds.

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