A letter of Edward Jenner (1749-1823).

IN 1773 Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park in Berkshire married Margaret Pryse, heiress of the thirty thousand acre Cardiganshire estate of Gogerddan. In consequence a considerable bulk of Loveden's papers are to be found in the hitherto unscheduled Gogerddan archive in the National Library of Wales. Although he has not been accorded the dignity of an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, Loveden was a man ofno mean standing. Born in 1750 he became M.P. for Abingdon, Sheriff of Breconshire, a Fellow of the Royal, Linnean and Horticultural Societies, and a member of the first Board of Agriculture. His broad range of interests are reflected in his correspondence which, in addition to the usual voluminous mass of estate material, includes a number of letters to and from inter alia, Sir John Sinclair, Sir Joseph Banks and William Cobbett. Of particular interest is a single letter from Edward Jenner despatched from Berkeley, Gloucestershire and dated April 17th 1805.