1756.] TO JOHN BARTRAM. 379 



as I am unacquainted with what has been sent you from England, 

 so I am at a loss to guess what I should send ; but this, I hope, 

 you will soon set me right about. So I shall add no more, at pre- 

 sent, but to assure you I am your sincere friend and servant, 



Philip Miller. 



Chelsea, Feb. 2, 1756. 



Dear Mr. Bartram : 



I have just now been favoured with your kind letter, dated the 

 ninth of December ; and although I wrote a long letter to you a 

 few days past, yet I take this opportunity to acknowledge the 

 receipt of yours, especially as I made a mistake in my last, in the 

 name of the ship by which I have sent you some seeds, with a bas- 

 ket of Ros'es and Cedar cones. This mistake was occasioned by my 

 waterman, who carried the things to the ship ; but the enclosed 

 note will set that right. 



I am glad you like my Figures. I hope to send you some much 

 better done, having changed my engraver. 



You mention that you want the Norway Maple. Had I known 

 this sooner, you should have been supplied ; for we have a large 

 tree in our garden, which produces plenty of seeds, and young 

 plants come up in all the borders near it. The cuttings will also 

 grow, like willows. If another ship departs from hence, soon, I 

 will send you plants of it. 



As you desire to know my wants, that you may supply them, so 

 I must desire you will acquaint me with what things you want from 

 hence, that I may make you some returns ; and although in my 

 other letter I pretty fully told what would be acceptable, yet have 

 I here sent you a list of some things taken out of the Flora Vir- 

 ginica y which book I suppose you have, so will soon know what I 

 mean by the names. Some of these you was so good as to send 

 me, in the last box ; but as they were in a bad condition, so I 

 can't tell, yet, which of them are alive, as they had no titles to 

 them. 



I shall take every opportunity to write to you, and shall always 

 be glad to hear from you, being your obliged friend and servant, 



Philip Miller. 



Chelsea, Feb. 18, 1756. 



