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and you have promised. In the mean time, I am 

 eager to welcome Lorenzo to my library. 

 Allow me to subscribe myself 



Your most obliged and affectionate Friend, 



J. E. Smith. 



From Mr. Hoscoe. 



My dear Sir, Allerton, Aug. 28, 1803. 



Amidst our frequent recollections of you at Al- 

 lerton, we had begun to feel some anxiety on your 

 account, which would by no means have been di- 

 minished, had we known that you had been career- 

 ing over the hills of Derbyshire on the top of a 

 coach. Your letter has arrived just in time to al- 

 leviate our apprehensions, and to add to the cheer- 

 fulness of our Sunday's dinner, where you have as 

 many friends as we number individuals. In rejoic- 

 ing with you, as I most truly do, on your restoration 

 to domestic happiness, I feel however a selfish hope 

 that it may encourage you at no distant period to 

 pay another visit to Liverpool, and that you will 

 prevail on Mrs. Smith to accompany you. I had 

 almost begun to suspect that the cares of the world 

 or the lapse of years had blunted in me those feel- 

 ings and diminished that capacity of attachment 

 which in youth is so ardently experienced : but the 

 fortunate incident which introduced me to your ac- 

 quaintance has restored me to a better opinion of 

 myself; and however I may regret that we did not 

 meet sooner, I gratify myself in regarding you as a 

 friend of my early days but lately found ; if indeed 



