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dis his stirpibus versari. Dispositionem tuam se- 

 quuturo multae adhuc desunt filices, quae non nisi 

 benevolentia aliorum, imprimis tua, suscepi pos- 

 sunt. Si ergo quaedam ad labores meos quae vel 

 communicari et turn remitti possint, habes, vel a te. 

 humanitate singulari in me conferri, grato animo et 

 domi et palam pronunciante suscepturus sum. Nam 

 quis diffidere posset quod penes te sint multae et 

 novae filices ex variis terris et regionibus allatae, qui 

 possides plurimorum regionum amicos, qui tenes 

 Linnaei immortalis herbarium et quae sunt reliqua. 

 Si ergo humanitate tua singulari meis studiis suc- 

 currere velis, persuasum te habeas, non ingrato de- 

 disse. 



Mrs. Johji Taylor to J. E. Smith. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, May G, 1803. 



I should not do justice to my own feelings if I 

 omitted to send you a few words, — not to express my 

 sense of your kindness, for that is impossible, nor 

 yet to tell you I am better, for this you will learn 

 without my wasting any paper upon the subject, — 

 but to keep up in some way the communication 

 which is suspended by your absence. I have often 

 told you that the consciousness of yourself and dear 

 Mrs. Smith being within my reach, the recollection 

 that I can at any time see you and converse with you, 

 forms one of the charms of my existence; and time 

 and habit (which are said to lessen our sense of the 

 blessings we enjoy) are continually increasing this 

 feeling in my mind. Indeed, what can time and 

 habit do, but add to the stores of recollection re- 



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