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became acquainted with EBENEZER ELLiot, Esq. and subse- 
quently with JonarHan BraMMELL, Esq. from whom we have 
since received many acts of kindness. Stopping afterwards 
at Derby, we saw our relations there, and on arriving in Lon- 
don were kindly welcomed by my brother-in-law, ALEXANDER 
Gorpon, Esq., and soon established ourselves in a house in 
Wimpole Street. 
I now again enjoyed the society of our numerous friends, 
and had the pleasure of seeing my work proceed apace. One 
day Mr Rosert Have i informed me, that a gentleman, a 
Fellow of the Royal Society, residing not far from us, in 
the same street, had subscribed for the Birds of America. 
The gentleman called to see me; my wife and myself, were 
introduced to his lady, and the several members of his ami- 
able family, and our intimacy and friendship have ever since 
increased. This excellent friend of mine is a surgeon of the 
highest merit. Long before I left England for America, he took 
charge of my wife’s precarious health; and when we parted at 
the coach that took my son, Joun Woopuouse, and myself, 
to Portsmouth, he promised to watch over her. When I again 
reached my house in Wimpole Street, after an absence of a 
year, he was the first friend to greet me with a cordial wel- 
come. Were I to mention the many occasions on which he 
has aided me by his advice and superior knowledge of the 
world, you would be pleased to find so much disinterestedness 
in human nature. His professional aid too, valuable as it has 
proved to us, and productive of much inconvenience to him, has 
been rendered without reward, for I could never succeed in 
inducing him to consider us his patients, although for up- 
wards of two years he never passed a day without seeing my 
