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Sat^y 8^th

My dear Henry

I have just heard from my Aunt Frampton ¹ in reply to my communication respecting her Drawings and she desires I will thank you very much indeed for all your kind exertions in her behalf, of which I assure you she is duly sensible.– She has (very wisely I think) decided on giving up the publication of them altogether, because the work as a Flora of Dorsetshire w^d be incomplete without the plants she copied from Curtis,² & it would be great labor to do them over again in a different position – Moreover she should hate the bother of the things she says & therefore must rest satisfied without giving the money to the Hospital.– Tell Constance ³ I am delighted to hear there is a chance of seeing her before long.– I am sorry my hopes must be at an End about the Encrinites⁴ but it cannot be helped & I am equally obliged to her . –

Y^r aff^te Cousin
H Grg Mundy

I have got the Drawings safe & will forward them to their home again.–