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1792
This Birmingham Fuchsia after all now it
A present of a Fuchsia – a flower then rare
but now as common as beautiful accompanied
this letter to Miss Tey
The present was not the plant itself, but a coloured drawing of one
taken as the letter says from a print of Curtis's & not from nature.
Do you know the proper name of this flower? and
the signification of that name? Fuchsia from Fuchs a
German Botanist: Fuchs did you know as much: is German
for Fox a certain lady's name. You are a philosopher: You know the influence
of the association of ideas. When last at Bowood you
were pleased to accuse me of indifference to Fuchsia –
pretty accusation was not it? J.B. indifferent to Fuchsia
I half suspect a little malice in the case: and that a
little more was understood of German than was acknowledged.
It is an old amusement of some peoples to observe what
I am fondest of, and charge me with dislike to it. Will
you hear what an innocent man has to say for himself?
At first sight Fuchsia's own proper merits had made
an impression on me, and such a one as ought to have
saved me from the imputation: What is more the charms
it had from by relation were at the time of the charge not
unknown to me – I pleaded generally not guilty
protesting innocence, and a usual in like cases with
little appearance of success. What could I do? beset as
I was
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letter 762, vol. 4; draft; also printed in bowring, x, 275-276 |
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