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I return you the Linnean and Philosophical 
Transactions, with my very best acknowledgements ; 
and have,I assure you, much pleasure in subscribing 
myself, my dear Sir, 
Your much obliged Friend, 
Martua Watt. 
To this lady Sir James was indebted for the 
whole correspondence of her admirable father, with 
various other papers, for the purpose of turning 
them to any public use he might think proper. He 
thus became possessed of the letters on both sides 
between Ellis and Linnzus, which were published 
in 1821, in “A Selection of the Correspondence of 
Linneus and other Naturalists.” 
This excellent woman was the second wife of 
Alexander Watt, Esq., of Northaw, Herts. In the 
memoir of Ellis, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, Sir James 
tells us, “She inherited her father’s taste and cha- 
racter, more especially his piety and sensibility of 
mind, with a considerable likeness to his person. 
She died in childbed at Northaw, in the spring of 
1795. Her will, written entirely in her own hand, 
and a letter to her husband, found after her decease, 
are worthy of the pen of a Richardson, and the 
character of a Clarissa.” 
From Mr. Davall, of Orbe, in Switzerland, an 
enthusiastic botanist, whose correspondence will 
appear hereafter, Sir James received the following 
notice of his travels. 
