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Your volume of Tracts I have seen, but would not 

 read till I get my own copy : all that came over are 

 already sold. I have got an opportunity of sending 

 your order to White ; — bid him give me a choice 

 copy ; but I am sorry there cannot be "ex dono" in 

 your own hand. You ought by this time to be think- 

 ing of the new edition of your Travels. I am anxi- 

 ous for one improvement, — that you should men- 

 tion where good plates of the several articles of bo- 

 tany and natural history are to be met with. I mean 

 to begin reading the Travels again immediately. 



I have just had a letter from Mr. Davies. He 

 laments the decease of Mr. Pennant ; so must every 

 friend to science and a respectable character. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. Caldwell. 



From the same. 



My dear Sir, London, August 30, 1799. 



The agreeable manner in which you contrived my 

 time should pass, — your kindness, — Mrs. Smith's, 

 and all your friends' — was more than sufficient to 

 make me regret leaving Norwich : we must, how- 

 ever, submit to destiny, and often practise self-de- 

 nial. Yarmouth was so full, the landlord of the inn 

 where I stopped looked frightened at seeing me : — 

 " Sir, if you were to give fifty guineas I could not 

 let you have a bed." He calmed on my assuring 

 him I wanted nothing more than the loan of a room 

 for half an hour to dress myself. All I could get 

 was the common powdering room. 



