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Good afternoon, friends.
I shall be in London tomorrow, so as an early Friday offering I present
you with this.
"Benevolence is truly a noble attribute of the human mind, but it may be
doubted whether Sir William [Pym] was fairly under its promptings when
he first felt it to be a duty incumbent on him to step forward in the
cause of humanity, and give to the world his second edition."
- Alexander Bryson, R.N. in _An account of the origin, spread, & decline
of the epidemic fevers of Sierra Leone: with observations on Sir William
Pym's review of the "Report on the climate and diseases of the African
station"_. London: Henry Renshaw, 1849, p.118.
As ever,
Jane
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