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know if while you are in town you would take a 
run down to us that he would be very glad to renew 
his acquaintance with you. I have a good large 
house, and you will always find a bed for you at 
your leisure. 
Your faithful 
S. G. 
From the same. 
My dear Sir, Deanery, Rochester, Nov. 21, 1804. 
You cannot think how glad I am to receive any 
letter from you, particularly when it calls me to 
literary investigation. Having always been a stu- 
dent in Divinity, as my first duty, that bore a very 
principal part in my pursuits even when at Ealing, 
when interest ought to have kept me entirely to 
Classics. Notwithstanding, however, that I was so 
wholly engrossed by those two profound studies, 
Natural History, as you always saw, was a study 
quite congenial to my feelings, and continually 
sweetened the toils of the other two. Happily re- 
leased from Classical interest, Divinity now remains 
the great object of my life. You may judge then 
how delightfully a little botanical, or rather I should 
say Natural History literature, relieves a long and 
laborious application to that ponderous employ- 
ment. I need not say more to persuade you to think 
how gladly I always turn aside to your call,—never 
leading me into any thing uninteresting or cold or 
trifling, but into rich and most gratifying concep- 
tions.—Verbum sat. 
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