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published in 1821. Dr. D.’s work is of a more local character, but 
. this will only recommend it the more to our American friends. 
One fact has affected us painfully, and was quite unexpected to us, 
from the known simplicity and prudence of Collinson's life. - His son, 
who seems to haye inherited his tastes, under date of June the 28th, 
1771, alludes to embarrassments which disturbed the happiness of the 
closing scene of his father's life. In speaking of a balance due to 
Bartram, which proved larger than was expected, he says :—“ The 
truth is, latterly my dear parent found those things a trouble to him 
which caused none a few years since. His situation, too, in point of 
circumstances, was likewise mortifying. His business, at last, totally 
declined ; and you will, Sir, I am sure, from the goodness and humanity 
of your own heart, and your long and unremitted friendship for him, 
be shocked when I tell you, that he solicited a small pension for an 
age near 75, great part of which was employed in pursuits advantageous 
to his country, and was refused !" 
In the Memorials of Bartram, there is a long and interesting 
letter from a Russian gentleman, Iwan Alexiowitz, which gives a 
pleasing account of a visit paid to Bartram in 1769. The mutual 
correspondence of Bartram and Collinson, from 1734 to 1768, the 
year of Collinson's death, occupies the largest portion of the work. 
But there are other letters of interest from Sir Hans Sloane, Dillenius, 
Catesby, Dr. Fothergill, Gronovius, Miller, Clayton, &c. Those of the 
son of Collinson, and a few from Dr. Franklin to Bartram, showing 
the friendship between them, are very interesting. 
If, however, full justice is ever to be done to the memory of Bartram, 
it wil be by the discovery and publication of his letters and 
journals, which we think must be preserved by Collinson's descendants. 
They are spoken of by his son as “invaluable.” “Your sentiments,” 
he says to Bartram, “are original, ingenious, and to the last degree 
pertinent, on the subjects on which they treat. "They were held in a 
manner sacred by my dearest father, nor is their consequence sunk in 
the hands of his son, by whom they are considered as an inestimable 
treasure of. American Natural History." 
'There is an occasional notice of William Bartram, and some letters 
addressed to him by his father, by Muhlenberg, Salisbury, Wilson, and 
Michaux. One, from the celebrated Henry Laurens, gives a painful 
description of William's forlorn situation on a farm he had taken in 
