1785.] TO HUMPHRY MARSHALL. ->,, 



Philadelphia, 27th April, 17 

 Respected Friend : 



In answer to thine of yesterday, I now inform thee I received, 

 by the Harmony, Capt. Willett, (who arrived a few days a: 

 two small parcels ; one from R. Barclay, and the other from \V. 

 Hamilton which the bearer undertakes to deliver to thee. * * * 



W. Hamilton has sent a number of curious flowering shrubs 

 and fruit trees, to be transplanted at his seat on the Schuylkill ; 

 and his gardener informs me, the most of them are healthy, and 

 appear likely to live. 



I have lately received a letter from my friend, Robert Barclay, 

 dated in December last, wherein he requests I would apply to thee 

 to send him a collection of seeds of such herbaceous plants as 

 were in thy list of the year 1783. He adds, if they could be 

 sent in March, by some safe conveyance, he should be glad to have 

 them forwarded ; but, as his letter did not reach me in time, I ex- 

 pect it will not do to forward them before next fall. However, I 

 leave it to thy better judgment, and request thee to collect the 

 seeds, and send them when thee thinks the season will be most 

 favourable. 



With esteem and respect, I remain thy friend, 



Thomas Parke. 



Philadelphia, LSth June, 1786. 



Respected Friend : 



A young gentleman being about to sail for London, from whence 

 he intends to go to Edinburgh to finish his medical education, is 

 desirous of taking a box of seeds of the most curious flowering 

 shrubs, &c, to present to the Professor of Botany in that Univer- 

 sity. If they can be procured and sent to Philadelphia by the 22d 

 or 23d inst., they will be in time to reach him before he embarks. 

 He is willing to pay 3 for the collection, and expects to have a 

 sample of the most curious, particularly of the Franhlinia. 



cimen of architecture) was built amidst much strife and contention, and was 

 finally completed in the year 1786. Sixty years afterwards, it was superseded 

 by an edifice worthy of the county, and creditable to the taste and spirit of an 

 intelligent and prosperous people. 



