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Q.S.P. 28 Octr 1819.

Assuming that it would be matter of satisfaction to you
& your friend Mr Professor Smythe of Cambridge to give countenance
& encouragement to merit, in any age and in particular
in early youth, I take the liberty of mentioning in this view a
young friend of mine, a Pensioner I think they call it, late of
Peter House, now of Trinity College Cambridge. He is I think about
20 years of age, son of an opulent Perfumer of Skinner Street,
London, who till lately now that years have suggested the contracting
the field of his cares, had another Establishment I think it
was in Bond Street, & a third at Bath — through all which channels
put together, he has contrived to extract, no small sum
of money from the pockets of Amateurs by extracting milk out
of Roses with somewhat better success than attended the endeavours
of the Laputa Philosophers to extract sunbeams out
of cucumbers. The destination of Henry was to serve Perfumery
behind his father's counter: happily (I trust) for mankind
howsoever it may be for himself, his destiny has taken a different
turn. His education till t'other day was adapted to his
destination: nor yet altogether well adapted: being rather beneath
it, than upon a level with it. Two or three years ago
some spirit — I either have never known or have forgot what
— perhaps the spirit of contradiction, perhaps the spirit of Tailor
Place; through whose means about a year or a year & a
half ago I became acquainted with him, inspired him with
the love of liberal learning. He was kept from her embraces,
(pity that learning is not more decidedly of the feminine gender)
with as much anxiety as Pyramus from the embrace of Thisbe.
That history became for his benefit a prophecy: et vetuere patres

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Date_1	1819-10-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	258	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman 1821
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public	draft of letter 2570, vol. 9	ID Number	3694
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