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are Rubus arcticus, Lysimachia thyrsiflora, and the 
indubitable Edymus arenarius, which I have seen 
and examined, and of which I have a specimen 
brought from the Gottingen garden, and is the same 
with the Doctor’s; that, therefore, brought from 
London by Mr. Crowe is a new English plant, if 
really found in England. 
I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. 
J. E. Smiru. 
Mr. Smith to Mr. James Edward Smith. 
My dear James, Norwich, Nov. 3, 1782. 
Mr. Woodward called here last week on his way 
to Narford, where he is gone to spend a few days. 
Mrs. is vastly pleased with your letter, and 
we are pleased with it too; you havea better knack 
at la badinage than I imagined. She is a lady very 
proper to correspond with, to introduce a young 
man into that kind of style which has its agrémens 
as well as utility. I suppose you know it is the 
way in France for every young gentleman to have 
such a female friend as will introduce him into the 
world in every sense of the word, and I need not tell 
you how far they carry it. She is not only his corre- 
spondent to form him to an easy, familiar, polite 
_ and gay style in letter-writing, to teach him the 
graces in company and conversation, but she is his 
tutor in gallantry and the knowledge of the character, 
the tastes, the foibles of the fair-sex;—and it is a - 
scandalous corruption, for she is too often their 
betrayer, at least by giving him lessons to employ 
