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1792
This Birmingham Fuchsia after all now it
is come does not answer expectation: The one
I saw before and which suggested to me the
idea of endeavoring to get another such
seemed upon Recollection much better done
but perhaps the supposed difference may
be owing more to the different degrees of
interest with which I Facedviewed them than to
any real difference in the object themselves;
another subject for your philosophy to
exercise itself upon. Upon taking notice
of the palemp of the leaves, The lady who
got it for me observed that this way made
from no better a model than a coloured
print of Curtiss': Whereas the other was made
from the plant itself of which no specimens
She
Identifier: | JB/009/094/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
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letter 762, vol. 4; draft; also printed in bowring, x, 275-276 |
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