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167 but they are all gone.—So now he has no flowers at all.…

T. W. MALKIN.

Dec. 14, 1800.

Hackney, Sunday, Dec. 21, 1800.

MY DEAREST MRS. P,

so much concerned to you, I should often like to see you. As for Mrs. B, I shall think she must be very miserable, because Mr. B is dead: so now her little boy has no father, or nobody to teach him Latin and Greek; so, you know, what a sad thing that must be! The book of quadrupeds, I think, is a very useful book to me. My Mental Improvement also is a very useful book; for I too learn a great deal from it. The serval, which is beautifully spotted, is extremely fierce. These circumstances, which to me have been very curious, now are less curious.