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From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Alexander Macleay
Date:
5 May 1812
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/71, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Safely returned home, his departure necessitated by his being "feverish weak" and unable to attend to anything; treating himself with James's powder but "felt so sudden a relief even at Mile End, [...] as if some great mental as well as bodily evil were suddenly taken off". Urges Macleay to change his situation as recommended, as though many have "a frame of adamant, a soul of fire" [Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), writer] and can bear the airs of London, "many sink under them"; recounts how he himself "struggled for 7 years in [Great] Marlbro' Street".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London