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CHAPTER XIII. 



Correspondence of Mr. Roscoe and Sir J. E. Smith. 



A few letters of Mr. Coke of Norfolk are also in- 

 serted in this chapter, — a name which it is impos- 

 sible to mention without a wish to do some justice 

 to the feelings it inspires ; but this might seem like 

 adulation, yet fall short of the truth : it is not there- 

 fore sufficient, but it may be expedient, only to 

 remark, that Mr. Coke's friendship for Sir James 

 began from the year in which the latter became an 

 inhabitant of the same county, and was perpetuated 

 in annual and perennial acts of kindness during the 

 remainder of Sir James's life. 



Of a character so well known as Mr. Roscoe, it 

 is unnecessary to say more than that Sir James's 

 first acquaintance with this distinguished person 

 had its origin in a request imparted to the latter to 

 give a course of botanical lectures at Liverpool in 

 1803, upon which occasion a mutual esteem was 

 formed : it cannot be said to have grown between 

 them, for it arrived at its full strength and stature 

 in so short a period, that time was unnecessary to 

 the development of a friendship which proved as 

 durable as it was decided at the first acquaintance. 



The following letter to Dawson Turner, Esq., de- 

 scribes the impression which this visit made upon 

 Sir James : — 



