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 From A. B. Lambert, Esq. 

 My dear Friend, Boyton House, July 22, 1825. 



Perhaps you will hardly believe it when I tell you, 

 the whole of the drawings of natural history of the 

 celebrated Bruce are now all safe at Boyton ! ! ! — 

 arrived about a fortnight ago direct from Kinnaird : 

 Mr. Cummings Bruce, who is now in possession of 

 the estates and museum, marrying the heiress of 

 Bruce, and whom I never saw. His brother, Sir W. 

 G. Cumming, married my cousin, Lady Charlotte 

 Bury's eldest daughter. 



The drawings, which are about three hundred, 

 consist of birds, fish, quadrupeds, and plants, — the 

 latter most interesting, — all drawn and described on 

 the spot where he found them, in Abyssinia, with 

 dissections of the parts of fructification, and which 

 would do honour to many of the botanists of the 

 present day, and most truly prove him to be a most 

 accurate, diligent observer, and perfectly do away all 

 those malicious aspersions which envy has brought 

 against him. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. B. Lambert. 



From H. F. Talbot, Esq* 

 Dear Sir, Island of Corfu, March 31, 1826. 



I imagine it will be agreeable to you to have some 



* OfLaycock Abbey, Wilts., nephew to the Marquis of Lans- 

 downe. This gentleman was introduced to Sir James in the 

 autumn of 1825 by A. B. Lambert, Esq. of Boyton House. 



