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From:
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
25 juin 1807
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 866-867.
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Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Pleased to hear that Smith may be joining his mother on a visit to Mrs Martin [Smith's sister] in Liverpool. Relieved to be free of political life, especially as he has attained his "one great object", the abolition of the slave trade, and pleased to return to his botanical and poetical pursuits. Recommends [William] Wordsworth's [(1770-1850), poet] new poems, which he listens to "with a pleasure something like that of an infant to the prattle of an old woman", and are to be read in "listlessness & leisure".