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before. Your yellow carnation surely is something 
extraordinary. I wish you would dispatch one to 
me in a letter; the sight of the flower will be very 
gratifying. 
I long for your coming up. You will find me 
at No. 14 Berners Street, just as you found me at 
Ealing of old, unchanged in all but in name. 
Yours, most truly and faithfully, 
SAMUEL CaRLISLE. 
J. £. Smith to the Bishop of Carlisle. 
Norwich, April 7, 1808. 
How very unfortunate am I, my dear Lord, about 
your letters! and those the most interesting to my 
vanity and improvement: as to my heart, I had ra- 
ther read that “ you are unchanged to me in all but 
in name”, much rather, than even your instructive 
remarks ; yet never did I suspect the contrary. I 
remember a long and critical letter about my Tour, 
franked by the Duke of Portland, never came to my 
hands; neither most assuredly did this about my 
Introduction! But I shall hear your remarks to 
double advantage in conversation, and I shall bring 
my MSS. and Prodromus with me. I fear my let- 
ters and MSS. will prove as great a dore as “all the 
papers”; but I must be allowed to vent my chit-chat 
to my long valued correspondent, about botany or 
the Linnean Society, or some such old favourite 
subject, now I feel that I can do it without taxing 
him further than for a few moments’ patience to 
read (for I will not be so unreasonable as to expect 
