Mr. WV. Jones* to J. E. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, London, Sept. 20, 1786. 
I have not felt my mind for a long time under 
such pleasing sensations as this day, from your at- 
tentive favour. I therefore take pen.immediately 
in hand, lest every day deferred I might grow more 
indifferent to thank you for it, and to assure you 
that you possess a place in my memory and esteem 
as frequent and favourable as I can have m yours ; 
and to tell you sz tantus amor casus cognoscere nos- 
tros. read your letter with great patience until I 
came to the Prince of Orange’s cabinet of insects, 
when I found anunaccountable fidgetting about me, 
very restless in my seat, until I had taken two or 
three turns across the room to compose myself; 
and just as I was recovered, the double Tuberoses 
occasioned a relapse, that *twas some time before | 
was able to proceed. “Tis a flower I have a great 
partiality for, but their culture in England is difth- 
cult without a hot-house,—quo fata ferant ubi sis- 
tere detur. May health attend you, and every plea- 
sure your journey can give! Iam sensible that 
cannot be little, when you have access to every 
thing that is rare and beautiful, and more especially 
in those things particularly adapted to your taste. 
* An excellent entomologist, well known in the scientific 
world, though, like other men of superior genius, modest and 
retiring from the observation he so well deserved. 
