550 DR. LOGAN [1789. 



this request to make, if thou pleases ; to save me some seed of the 

 Geranium, when ripe : also if thou couldst procure me a set or two 

 of Rosemary, I should accept it as a favour, having lost mine the 

 hard winter, and not got any since. Perhaps some slips set in the 

 ground in season, would take root, and be safely moved towards fall. 

 I hope the public peace will add fresh life and vigour to every 

 useful science that may tend to adorn and enrich our country : the 

 propagation of plants being one, and much my delight. I take 

 every help that I receive this way as a kindness. 



From thy friend, 



John Jackson. 



Londongrove, the 30th 3d mo., 1789. 



DOCTOR LOGAN* TO H. MARSHALL. 



" Sir : 



" We wish to be informed if we can be supplied with any of the 

 natural productions of America, either by barter for the productions 

 of Italy, or at a moderate price. 



few contemporaries of Humphry Marshall, who sympathized cordially with his 

 pursuits. He commenced a garden soon after that at Marshallton was established, 

 and made a valuable collection of rare and ornamental plants ; which is still pre- 

 served in good condition by his son, William Jackson, Esq. John Jackson, 

 was a very successful cultivator of curious plants, a respectable botan^t, and one 

 of the most gentle and amiable of men. He died in 1822, at an advanced age. 



* George Logan, M.D., son of William, and grandson of James Logan, the 

 distinguished friend and secretary of William Penn, was born at Stenton, near 

 Philadelphia, September 9, 1753. He was sent to England for his education when 

 very young, and, on his return, served an apprenticeship with a merchant of Phi- 

 ladelphia. He had early a great desire to study medicine, which he undertook 

 after he had attained to the years of manhood. After spending three years at the 

 medical school of Edinburgh, he travelled through France, Italy, Germany, and 

 Holland, and returned to his own country in 1779. 



He applied himself for some years to agriculture, and also served in the Legis- 

 lature. In June, 1798, he embarked for Europe, for the purpose of preventing a 

 war between America and France. For this step he was violently denounced by 

 hostile political partisans ; a but he persevered, and succeeded in his intentions. 



a Dr. Logan was not only " denounced by hostile political partisans," for his 

 benevolent efforts on the occasion, but there was, also, an Act of Congress placed 

 in our statute book, which is palpably aimed at such interference, and which, it 

 is too probable, originated in the resentful feelings of the administration and its 

 Mipporters, towards the estimable citizen who planned and consummated that 

 philanthropic movement. The act referred to, was passed January 30, 1799, and 

 prescribes a "Fine of 5000 dollars, and imprisonment, for citizens holding corre- 



