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Paris Sep:r 13th: 1786.
Dear Sir
By a letter from Broussonet you will by this time have heard of the visitor at Soho Square & of the curious events which brought him there with such precipitation, I need not therefore repeat them. I cannot help however taking the liberty of suggesting to you some things which probably neither Broussonet nor L'heritier (if you see him) may mention. It appears to me that they hold this herbarium on a very precarious footing, & as nobody knows what consequences the step which L'heritier has now set may have, & many other causes may concur to occasion its being given up when it returns, as it must do, to Paris, would not you think it worth while to hasten your return to town to see it? This however is not all. If it had continued tranquilly in L'heritier's hands, the duplicates, which are often very numerous, would after his publication have been distributed among botanists, & we should have shared them, for so he gave me to understand, no doubt knowing that those above him would not forbid it.