Excerpt from Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D, Vol. 2 of 2 My dear Sir, I have many thanks to offer (too long postponed) for your kind present of excellent dried fruit and biscuits; the latter are, I perceive, recovering their peculiar taste and good quality which I will now venture to say were quite gone. Those cruel times of real or pretended scarcity ruined every sort of eatables where flour was con cerned; neither do I think that bread or any other flour compositions have yet been in, nor perhaps ever will return to, the same perfection as before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.