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parcel of letters for our relations in India that are to go by the purser of an Indiaman who lodges in Argyle Street, & we know of no other safe conveyance without putting him to expence on our account. I hope you will excuse this liberty, & accept of all our united wishes for many happy years to yourself & family.
As I am now writing to you I will venture to make a request I have often had in my mind, wch. is that you will be so good as to allow me to dedicate my Flora Britannica to you. It will be an original work & so far at least not unworthy of your patronage, & I do not know when I am likely to produce any thing better worth offering to you, else I should not offer this. It is in considerable forwardness, & I hope in 5 or 6 weeks, if the weather mends, to come to town & put it to the press. I am at the end of Didynamia.