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nunc emtorem omnium fieri optat, et pecunia 
summam solvere velle, scripsit. Me vero imprimis 
movet, quod, dum in priori ejus epistola nos inter 
sermo erat tantummodo de herbariis, que sepa- 
ratim vendere abnui, nunc se in iisdem litteris pre- 
tium 1000 guineas obtulisse contendit. Certus 
sum te jam litteras illi dedisse; responsi ego, me 
omnia vendidisse. Fidem et honestatem incolumem 
servare studui erga omnes; nec mihi conscientia 
imputat, quod alio quam Sibthorpio collectiones 
venum dare volui. 
Interea tu valeas, amicorum optime, et me ama. 
J. G. ACREL. 
Triste tibi nuntium mittam, celeberrimum Berg- 
mannum d. 16 hujus mensis diem obiisse supre- 
mum, ad fontes soterias Medevicenses, ubi salutis 
ergo aliquantisper moratus fuit. Apoplexia ab 
hemorrhoidibus interceptis occubuit. 
Mr. James Edward Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, August, 31, 1784, 
I have now the pleasure to inform you, that it is 
unnecessary for us to trouble our friends any furth- 
er about the custom-house business, for I went 
there yesterday, and was told that an order had 
come from the treasury, that every thing except 
the books should be admitted and delivered to me 
without duty, or any charges whatever. I was at 
the same time assured that every attention possible 
