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Calling one day on a friend, who had amassed a large collection of autographs, and other manuscript curiosities, he showed me a small quarto volume, which had been bequeathed to him by a relative, a physician, who for many years had been in extensive practice in London.
'He attended the patients at a private asylum for insane persons of the better classes, ' said my friend, 'and I have often heard him speak of the writer of that beautiful MS, a gentleman of good family, who had been an inmate of ---- House upwards of thirty years, ' at the time he was first called to attend him.