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friend, Mr. Peter Collinson, has given me through your means. 

 If there is any seeds here, which you think worth your having, 

 please let me know, and I'll endeavour to procure you some of 

 them ; and I am, 



Sir, your obliged servant, 



James Gordon. 



London, Mile-End, March 8, 1750-1. 



[On the back of the preceding, Peter Collinson wrote the 

 subjoined paragraph : ] 



" Our friend Gordon is a very modest man, and can't speak 

 himself; but a few Magnolia cones, of the two or three sorts grow- 

 ing with you, will be acceptable to him." 



JOHN BARTRAM TO THOM. FRANC. DALIBARD.* 



[Not dated.] 



To Monsieur Dalibard, a Paris : 



Our very worthy friend, Benjamin Franklin, Esq., whom I 

 have the pleasure (as well as honour) to be intimately acquainted 

 with, showed me a letter wherein thee mentioned a book thee 

 designed to send me, which will be very acceptable, for I love 

 Botany, and Natural History, exceedingly. 



I shall be well pleased to correspond with one so curious, and 

 shall make use of all opportunities to oblige ; and as an introduc- 

 tion, I have sent a little parcel of seeds, and specimens, which I 

 gathered. But as you are possessed of so large a part of North 

 America, I suppose it will be difficult to send you any plant that 

 you have not, although I believe we have several which you want ; 

 but the difficulty is, to know which they are. If I had a catalogue 

 either of what you have, or what you want, I will endeavour to 

 supply you, which I suj>pose must be carried on by the good offices 

 of Benjamin Franklin here, or my first correspondent in London, 

 the generous Mr. Peter Collinson, who is ready to oblige all 

 men. 



* Mons. Dalibard was a French botanist, who, in 1749, published a duodecimo 

 volume, entitled Flora. Parisiensis Prodromus. His name is commemorated by the 

 genus Dalibarda, L. 



