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From the Rev. James Yates. 



Dear Sir James, Birmingham, Feb. 26, 1822. 



I have been long wishing for an opportunity of 

 expressing to you and Lady Smith the pleasure and 

 obligation which I feel whenever I call to mind my 

 visit to you last autumn ; and at the same time to 

 inform you that all I expected to find at Holkham 

 was even exceeded, both in the magnificence of the 

 place itself, and its richness in the various objects 

 of taste and curiosity, and also in the hospitality 

 and goodness of its noble-minded possessor, — and 

 of his daughter, of whom it is the highest praise to 

 say that she is worthy of her father. From Mr. 

 Odell, also, I received the most obliging attentions; 

 and the kindness of Archdeacon Bathurst was quite 

 overwhelming. Indeed, I never took any journey 

 which afforded me so much of the pleasures and 

 advantages (and these I reckon among those which 

 are of the highest order,) of intercourse with the 

 truly great and good. Among these I number not 

 only your venerable Bishop, but others of the in- 

 habitants of your classic and intellectual city, whom 

 I met in your company, and who, though in humbler 

 stations of life, are the real ornaments of society, — 

 the patterns and promoters of whatever is most es- 

 timable in human nature, — the enlightened and 

 consistent friends of liberty, truth, and virtue. 

 I would beg you to give them my kind and re- 

 spectful remembrances, if it were not that, from the 

 number of the kind and good friends with whom 



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