Mergui: January 17th, 1835.
“My last accounts of Mr. Bauer state him to have been in excellent health: he had just completed some more of his unrivalled drawings.”
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Suddya: December 30th, 1836.
“Pray give the compliments of the season to Mr. Bauer, to whom I look up with the greatest admiration: what a pity it is for science that such a life as his is not renewable ad libitum. Tell him that I have a beautiful new genus allied to Rafflesia, the flowers of which are about a span across, it is diœcious and icosandrous, and has an abominable smell. How I look back occasionally on my frequent and delightful visits to Kew.”
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To MRS. H---.
Serampore, Calcutta: July 22nd, 1841.
“I was aware of the departure of Mr. Bauer through the Athenæum, in which an excellent notice of him appeared. He certainly was a man to whom I looked up with constant admiration: he was incomparable in several respects, and I am happy to find, that his death was so characteristic of his most inoffensive and meritorious life. It is also very pleasing to me to find that he continued to think well of me. How I should have been able to delight him had he lived a few years longer.”
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