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commending myself to your kindness, I have the 
honour to remain, with great esteem, 
Honoured Sir, 
Your most obedient humble Servant, 
Henry Munensere, D.D. 
Minister of Trinity Church at Lancaster ; Fellow of 
the Philos. Society at Philad., and of Academ. 
Imper. Nat. Cur. 
J. E. Smith to the Rev. Henry Muhlenberg, D.D., 
Pennsylvania. 
Dear Sir, March 6, 1793. 
Ihave seldom received more pleasure from a let- 
ter than yours of Dec. lst afforded me: never did 
I receive one so gratifying, I will not say to my 
vanity, but to better feelings. You cannot be more 
enthusiastically fond of botany than I am; and your 
letter promises me a fresh instance, in addition to 
many already experienced, that this study, charming 
in itself, is still more valuable as a key to the inter- 
course of the most amiable minds. To botany I 
owe friendships and connections I else could have 
had no chance of forming; and your letter, over- 
flowing with the milk of human kindness, and with 
the amiable modesty of real merit, promises me one 
which it will be my most anxious care and ambition 
to deserve. One part only of your letter gives me 
pain, my dear Sir,—that, where you express a doubt 
(however slight) lest I should not attend to it as it 
deserves. Allow me to say, I am too covetous of 
your correspondence to turn it over to anybody 
else. I am extremely concerned that my ignorance 
