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soin queje suis sure quilse tronvera bien avec nous." 

 I answer, that must and shall be some time or other; 

 and if he will not come, I shall never die contented. 



You make me very happy in what you say of 

 Lady Rockingham. I had wished she might have 

 the good thought of placing so judiciously her du- 

 plicate Hart. Mai. Pray, present my compliments 

 when you see her. I have so many things to say 

 that I hardly know where to begin, and shall be 

 obliged to scrawl a second sheet. 



If young Jacquin is still in England, pray give 

 him my compliments, and tell him I expect he will 

 not forget me in his journey through this part of 

 the world. What a wretched figure his father has 

 given of Arenaria linifiora in his second volume of 

 Collectanea ! 



I can send you a most charming specimen in 

 fine preservation of one of the rarissima plants of 

 Switzerland, gathered by me this last season on 

 Great St. Bernard, Sisymbrium tanacetifolium ; but I 

 ought not to have asked you whether you want it. 

 — Pray tell me frankly as you should, and I know 

 you will, whether I may copy in the course of my 

 work, your text concerning Sonchus alpinus and 

 Stellaria dichotoma. If you do not wish it, you will 

 give me a new proof of friendship in saying No. 

 — Although I must now look to close ceconomy, I 

 long most irresistibly to ornament my study with 

 the plates of Limodorum Tankervillia, and Strelit- 

 %ia, in colours ; and if Lee would permit Sowerby 

 to copy Miss Lee's drawing of Protea tnellifera, and 

 you direct the choice of some fourth rare and spe- 



