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path, as Sir Walter Raleigh did for Queen Eliza- 
beth,” 
My dear Lord, I presume to hope you will make 
my congratulations acceptable to Mrs. Goodenough 
and all your amiable family. Long may you be ho- 
nours and blessings to each other !—so sincerely 
prays your ever devoted 
J. EK. Smiru. 
From the same. 
My dear Lord, Norwich, April 3, 1808. 
My friend Dawson Turner has at length informed 
me how I may direct a letter to you. If I could be 
jealous of so good a friend, I should grudge Turner 
this letter, as I have so long languished and hoped 
for, and been promised one, “as soon as I can frank.” 
But I will not indulge mean passions; so I do most 
heartily rejoice that the above-mentioned excellent 
and amiable friend has found favour in the sight of 
one among the very few whom I have known and 
loved more and longer. Lambert too writes that 
“our friend the Bishop of Carlisle is to dine with 
him on Monday, and is to be at the meeting of the 
Linnean Society on Tuesday.” This last piece of in- 
telligence, my good Lord, is what makes me trouble 
you now. You would by law, as the oldest member 
amongst the Vice Presidents, be in the Chair. If this 
be your intention, and I hope and trust there is no 
objection to it, it would give me peculiar pleasure; 
because a paper of mine on a new genus of mosses 
is to be read, and the Latin characters and descrip- 
