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ever be happy in each other ! My next favourite 

 hope is to come and see you one day. — I long to 

 see Switzerland again, and you I must see ; I like 

 to indulge cheerful hope. Thank God I have en- 

 joyed much, and hope to enjoy more ; — if not, His 

 will be done, and I shall not be the worse for hav- 

 ing hoped. Adieu ! 



Yours ever, 



J. E. Smith. 



Mr. JDavall to J. E. Smith. 



My dear Friend, Orbe, May 81, 1790. 



My time has been so taken up, what with the 

 care of my garden and excursions to collect some 

 of the plants I wished to send you, that I find my- 

 self close to Mandrot's departure. — Now for your 

 last invaluable letter : but I must first say, that I 

 told you in my letter of the 27th April, that I should 

 have a good opportunity of sending specimens. It 

 w 7 as by a most worthy man, and a very good friend 

 of mine, who was on his departure for England, 

 Mr. Schutz, the Queen's equerry; he dined with me 

 on a Thursday, was to set off in ten days, was taken 

 suddenly ill four days after I saw him, and died. I 

 regret him most sincerely. 



Nothing can be more perfectly open, sincere and 

 friendly, than your answer to my request of being 

 godfather to rny child, if it conies well into this 

 world. I assure you, my good friend, although 

 I have been educated in the Church of England, I 

 consider the office of godfathers and godmothers 



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