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this next winter in Boston, or perhaps more to North ; and the 

 next summer, if God keep me safe, I think to see some part of 

 Canada. In the latter end of the same summer I propose to 

 return to England, and so to my own country. If I did know that 

 you have no examplar of Mr. Linnaeus' his Fauna Suecica, I 

 could spare you one thereof. I have yet by me one examplar of 

 his Flora Zeylanica :•; if I come to you, sir, you shall have the 

 same too. I took some of his books with me to give to my 

 friends and the lovers of Natural History in this country ; which, 

 perhaps, not always can have the same. I have self had the 

 advantage to be by Mr. Linnaeus about two years time, and was 

 loved of him as [if] I was his own child. If it happens that I 

 am to take the way through New York, I will pay you my 

 respect. Ignoscas quasso, vir nobilissime, si minus bene lingua 

 vestra .... utar, notitia enim omni elegantissima et utilis- 

 sima hujus lingua penitus carebam, priusquam Anglicus salutas 

 scire terras. I am, dear sir, your most humble servant, 



Peter Kalm. 



P. S. I should be very much obliged to you, sir, if you could 

 procure for me some seeds of the kind of Acer which they call 

 Sugar-Maple, and whereof the Indians in some places make a 

 sort of sugar. 



Kalm to Dr. Colden. 



Philadelphia, January 4th, 1759. 



Dear Sir — Upon my last letter, which I had the honor to 

 write to you, sir, I have not to this day received any answer ; 

 so that I am very uneasy, fearing you is not well. I had the 

 honor then to acquaint you, that I had deferred my going home 

 to the month of January, because I was not sure to find any 

 ships going for Sweden at my arrival in London. Now as the 

 ship upon which I intend to go from hence will not be ready to 

 sail before in the middle of February next, I have taken the op- 

 portunity to write to you with another gentleman. I should be 

 very glad, sir, if I could receive from you the letter to Mr. Lin- 

 naeus, which you was so kind and promised to send to him : he 

 will be exceedingly glad of that, as there are few persons he sets 

 such a value upon as upon you. 



But excuse me, dear sir, that I again am so bold to trouble 

 you with the same that I before wrote to you. 



