144 The Wilson Bulletin— No. 64. 



have a request to make to Miss Bartram, if the state of her 

 health will permit. We want well colored specimens of the 

 plates to be sent to Boston, Charlestown, New York, etc.. and 

 as my time will not permit me to do theni myself I have pre- 

 sumed to apply to her (o color the impressions that accompany 

 them, for which I shall make any returns. Perhaps Mary 

 Leach might be set to seme parts of them with safety, which 

 would lessen the drudgery. If this request should be consid- 

 ered disagreeable you will not, I am sure, impute it to any mo- 

 tives but those of the highest esteem of those to whom I make 

 it, and the impressions may be returned tomorrow by any safe 

 conveyance with perfect good nature on both sides." ^ 



I had the pleasure of examining a brief manuscript note in 

 the possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, dated 

 ■August 28th, 1808, detailing the result of som.e experiments on 

 the " Grandaddy Long-legs," on the morning of the 28th of 

 March, 1808, in the presence of Mr. William Bartram and his 

 niece. Miss Ann Bartram ; also a letter dated July 9th, 1811, 

 from the Bartram garden, introducing his friend. Major Carr, 

 to Gecrge Ord ; - which serve to show the perfect good will 

 and understanding existing between Wilson and the members 

 of that family. For, without haste or compulsion. Miss Bar- 

 tram married Robert Carr, the well-to-do Second street printer, 

 in March, 1809, who became a resident of the botanic gar- 

 den, devoting himself with great care and interest to the preser- 

 vation of the collection, of which there were 2.000 species of 

 our native productions contained in a space of six acres ; until 

 he being in his declining years and their son having died, they 

 became anxious to retire from the nursery business and offered 

 to surrender the property to Andrew M. Eastwick, who held a 

 mortgage of $15,000 against it, and who afterward, until his 

 pecuniary embarrassment during the civil w'ar, took the most 

 jealous care of that most historic spot. Mr. Carr was conspicu- 

 ous in the local militia, became an officer in the L'nited States 



'Stone's Some, Unpublished Letters of Alexander Wilson and John 

 Abbott, Auk, Vol. XXIII, 1806, p. 362. 



- Gi'osart's Memoir and Remains of Alexander AVilson, Vol. I, pp. 

 vl.-vii, and xlvii. 



