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Yours seems C. crubescens of Redout's Plantes Li~ 

 liac&s, fasc. 5. Are not your flowers tinged exter- 

 nally with purple ? and sessile ? 



How gladly shall I cherish the hope of seeing you 

 and Mrs. Roscoe here ! Drake is much flattered 

 by your mention of him. He is now reading your 

 Lorenzo, having just read Tcnhove. He enters fully 

 into the subject, and reads with as much profit as 

 most young people : I perceive your character has 

 made a deep impression on his mind. You did not 

 perhaps observe that he was in tears almost all the 

 way to Prescot. I know not whether to regret that 

 age when tears of the mind so easily find vent at the 

 eyes ; but I love to contemplate it in others. I am 

 anxious to hear how Mr. W. Roscoe's health is : we 

 have just been admiring his " lily by moonlight." I 

 think his youthful spirit aims at removing by exer- 

 tion what would most easily yield to repose and 

 care. Inflammatory disorders are never to be rubbed 

 off by neglect ; they are the reverse of nervous or 

 low diseases, and much more rare. 



Your ever affectionate Friend, 



J. E. Smith. 



Sir */. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, October 6, 1803. 



I did not think of writing to you just now ; but 

 a melancholy event has just reached my knowledge 

 which you no doubt have heard already ; and on the 

 subject of which my first feelings seem inclined to 

 relieve themselves by having recourse to you. 



