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Respected & worthy friend 



J received about two months past thy letter dated August the 10*^ 

 1750. J was exceedingly pleased to receive so kind A letter from one 

 that so dersevedly bears such A superior Gharacter for Botanical Lear- 

 ning. but was very much concerned that J could not hava had it sooner 

 then above two year after it was wrotej; & much the same misfortune 

 happened to those pamflets thee sent to d"^ Golden ^ &c M"^ Glaton^ 

 which our worthy friend Benjamin Franklin^ shewed me last week ha- 

 veing just then received them which he intended to send according to 

 direction by the next Post. — J traveled in 1751 most part of the 

 Autumn & found several new species of plants & shrubs which J should 

 have sent to thee if J had known thay would have been acceptable. 

 Wee have four or five species of Jacobea that you have not in Europé, 

 one species grows in marshes, another in flat low stif ground, anolher 

 on could shady banks by great rivers. Another on loose slaty soil on the 

 great mouutains & most of these species is used by the back inhabitants 

 for the cure of the same diseases that the antients did tho thay know 

 nothhig of the name of the plant. J hope thee hath received the Me- 

 dica Britanica^. J desinghn to send thee some specimens next fall: pray 

 let me know what sorts of seeds thee wants J am glad those that J 

 sent thee grows. If J can any ways oblige thee with specimens seeds 

 or plants or any information my poor Gapacity can contribute, none can 

 do it more GherefuUy then thy sincear friend 



John Bartram. 



March the ^0^^ 1753. 



P. S. we are all surprised that we have not one letter from Peter 

 Kalm whome we are ready to tax with ungratitude. thine as before JB. 



Linn. Soc, Vol. I: 856—357. Efter Bartrams utkast, något afvikande, 

 tryckt i Darlingtons Memorials, s. 371. 



^ Gadwallader Golden, se Äfd. 1: D. 3, s. 195, not 3. 



* John Clayton, se Afd. I: D. 3, s. 195, not 2. 



' Benjamin Franklin, den berömde amerikanske politikern och vetenskaps- 

 mannen, föddes 1706, dog 1790. 



*• Härmed afses en af Bartram gjord amerikansk bearbetning af Thomas 

 Short, Medicina britannica, som 1751 utkom hos B. Franklin och D. Hall i 

 Philadelphia. 



