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1781. The Tonnj Gardener's best Companion for the Kit- 

 chen and Fruit Garden, London. 12mo. By 

 SAMUEL FULMER. 



JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM,was bornin 1744,ofIr:sh, 



Quaker parents, en the little Island ofVandvke, near Toitolai 

 where his father V as a planter. Being sent to England, and 

 placed under the care of Samuel Foiheig-ill, a celebrated 

 preacher of the Society of Friends, he ^vas sent by this gentle- 

 man to a Schocl at Warrington. He ther.ce j>assed toan appren_ 

 {icrship with an Apothecary ai Settle in Yorkshire; at:d tinish- 

 ed his Surgical studies at St. Thomas's Ilospi'al. The death 

 cf his elder brother templed him to visit his property at the 

 West Indies, Avhich fiuding chiefly comprised of Slaves, he 

 emancipated, and se- tied himself at Tortola. He soon returned to 

 Euro])e, and graduated at I.eyden. He finally settled in London, 

 and there by the friendly interest of Dr. Fothergill, so(,n ac- 

 quired a most extensive jirartice. He was a zealous Ph lant- 

 rcph st ; member of mo&t of the European and American lite- 

 rary and scientific institutions ; and is well known as an aullior. 

 He died Nov. the 1st. 1815, many years previous to which, he 

 liad ceased to be a member of the Society of Friends. 



There is an engraved portrait of him by T. Ilolloway, ad 

 vivtini. 



The works for which he deserves our notice are, 



1. Jlortus Uptonensis; or a catalogue of Stove and Green- 

 house Plants in Dr. Fothergill's Garden, at his death * 

 London. 1781- 8vo, 



2. Grovehill ; a rural and horticultural sketch. London; 

 1804. -Itc. 



