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ry point eligible, to the more accomplislied and refined 

 of her own sex, could not fail to have been approved by 

 her, who knew and exemplified so well the value and 

 importance of such pursuits, and their inestimable effects 

 upon the mind. These hopes, which my late honoured 

 iriend and patroness had, with her usual benignity, en- 

 couraged, are now most unhappily defeated, and I have 

 no resource but in your Lordship, who is no stranger to 

 my pretensions, nor to my sentiments, and in whom I 

 have not now for the first time to seek an able and en- 

 lightened patron. I remain, 



with the profoundest respect, 

 my Lord, 

 your Lordship's most obliged 

 and obedient servant, 



J. E. SMITH. 



Norwich, 

 Nov. 15, 180r, 



