52 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



" My good Friend, John Bartram: 



" I am very sensible of the great pains and 

 many toilsome steps to collect so many rare plants 

 scattered at a distance. I shall not soon forget 

 it; but, in some measure to shew my gratitude, 

 though not in proportion to thy trouble, I have 

 sent thee a small token : a calico gown for thy wife 

 and some odd little things that may be of use 

 amongst the children and family. They come in 

 a box of books to my worthy friend, Joseph 

 Breintnall, with another parcel of waste paper 



which will serve to wrap up seeds, etc 



Thou canst not think how well the little case of 

 plants came, being put under the captain's bed, 



and saw not the light till I went for it 



The warmth of the ship and want of air had occa- 

 sioned the Skunk-weed to put forth two fine 

 blossoms, very beautiful, but it is of the Arum 



genus As I hope to make a present of a 



part of the seeds (sent) to a very curious person, 

 Lord Petre, I hope to procure thee some present 

 for thy trouble of collecting. 



" I am thy very sincere friend, P. Collinson." 



" London, January 24, 1735. " 



Any one desirous of some pleasant reading 

 about this genial and learned Bartram should 

 take an hour or two with The Memorials of John 

 Bartram and Humphry Marshall, by Dr. Will- 

 iam Darlington, Philadelphia, 1849. 



