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tectaque ad te venire curabo. Catalogum quam 
proxime exspectas. Vale interea, atque fave 
Nominis tui nobilissimi 
Cultorem fidelem 
Jou. Gustav. ACREL. 
Dominum D". Engelhardt, amicum meum sin- 
cerrimum, permultas dicas salutes. 
Mr. Smith to Mr. James Edward Smith. 
My dear Son, Norwich, March 1, 1784. 
The frost broke up, the snow gone, and waters 
run off, I mean to set out for London next week 
with your brother John: we shall come on horse- 
back, or I shall put the horses in a chaise, I don’t 
fully resolve which. It will be proper to know 
whether you can meet with a lodging for us, the 
town is now so full of people attending parliament. 
Again I shall want a livery stable for two horses. 
I have daily expected to hear you have had an- 
answer from Upsal: if all be right, ’tis as well it stavs 
till we can travel more comfortably. I am glad to 
hear you are prepared to meet whatever may be the 
event of the Linnean collection. Things are so 
uncertain in this life, we cannot tell what will be the 
best; but a due exertion to improve the circum- 
stances we find around us will most generally be 
attended with success, and I entertain very flattering 
hopes of yours. 
P.S. I am told the post has come constantly from 
Sweden notwithstanding the frost. 
Yours, 
JAMES SMITH. 
