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Your situation is a very enviable one for a bota- 
nist; out of the smoke of London, and close to one 
of the best gardens in Europe*. 
I left all my treasures behind me at Zante; but 
by a letter from our Consul I hope soon to receive 
them. I am quite a stranger to what has been 
going on in the botanical world for this twelve- 
month past. Lambert informs me of great trea- 
sures brought by Masson, White and Menzies,— 
that the botanic world will grow too big for us. 
You renew my grief in mentioning poor Borone. 
I was so affected that I could do nothing for some 
days after his death, not even continue my journal. 
If I recollect right, it was on the 20th of October 
that this melancholy event took place. He certainly 
had no watch, but as he was fond of wearing one, 
I lent him mine when we were at Constantinople. 
It was indeed a cruel fate, and we all lament his 
death. Hawkins, when I last heard, was gone into 
Thessaly to visit Ali Pashaw, in good health, but 
under alarms from robbers. 
- Yours most sincerely, 
J. SrpTHorpe. 
The following letters, it will be perceived, were 
written after Dr. Sibthorp’s death, and when the care 
of his posthumous work was confided to Sir James 
Smith. 
* Mr. James Lee’s at Hammersmith. 
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