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struggles of the times. Come then, my friend, and 

 let us again open the book of Nature, and wander 

 through the fields of Science. Your presence will 

 increase my reviving relish for botanical pursuits ; 

 and when we are tired with those subjects, we will 

 call in the aid of the poets and philosophers to vary 

 our entertainment. 



Pray have you seen Mr. Wordsworth's new poems ? 

 "Whatever things are whimsical, whatever things 

 are childish, whatever things are odd, — these, and 

 many other things, are to be found in these vo- 

 lumes : but after all I like them, and listen to him 

 with a pleasure something like that of an infant to 

 the prattle of an old nurse. They are to be read 

 in listlessness and leisure, like that in which they 

 seem to have been written ; and if you can bring 

 your mind to the proper tone, depend upon it you 

 will not find an hour or two misemployed in their 

 perusal. 



Let me have the pleasure of hearing from you as 

 soon as possible, and believe me ever most truly 

 and affectionately 



Yours, 



W. Roscoe. 



Sir J. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, July 4, 1807. 



After all the agitation and anxiety of mind which 

 I have felt for some weeks past on your account, 

 how delightful is it to find, by your most welcome 



