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grandfather introduced the same Willow into his 

 county forty or fifty years ago, and distributed 

 plants of it among his tenants ; which perhaps may 

 give it some additional claim to the specific name 

 you have been pleased to bestow upon it. 



From Mr. Johnes. 



My dear Friend, Hafod, Dec. 6, 1804. 



I have read Mrs. Barbauld's Introduction to 

 Richardson's Letters. It is most excellent; but 

 there is a Mrs. Klopstock who goes to your mar- 

 row, for she pierces through the heart. It is a 

 charming collection. 



I am very proud you continue to like Froissart, 

 and thank you very kindly for your expressions of 

 him and me ; for I shall tag myself to the old gentle- 

 man's skirts, in hopes he will make me mount to 

 fame with him. I shall go on with Monstrelet, who 

 has never had an English coat on ; and probably 

 Joinville, by way of intermezzo, and to give time to 

 collations of Monstrelet. Let me know how you 

 like this plan, for I am not quite determined as to 

 Joinville's Memoirs*. You are among the few who 



* Mr. Gray, in a letter to the Rev. N. Nicholls, speaks thus 

 of these old historians : — "I rejoice you have met with Froissart : 

 he is the Herodotus of a barbarous age. Had he but had the luck 

 of writing in as good a language, he might have been immortal ! 

 His locomotive disposition, (for then there was no other way 

 of learning things,) his simple curiosity, his religious credulity, 

 were much like those of the old Grecian. When you have taut 

 chevauche as to get to the end of him, there is Monstrelet waits to 



