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fast. These two days I could have refreshed myself finely, if the 
Doctor had been at home, or durst have eaten freely of what was set 
before me: for they all were very kind.’’ 
Further on in a letter from Peter Collinson to John Bartram 
dated January, 1756, he expresses himself in regard to Miss 
Colden’s accomplishments in the following terms: 
‘‘Our friend Colden’s* daughter has, in a scientific manner sent 
over several sheets of plants, very curiously anatomized after his + 
method. I believe she is the first lady that has attempted anything 
of this nature. They are to be sent to Dr. Gronovius ; and he, poor 
drawings of Oaks, and thy system. Though I have writ several letters, 
I shall this day send another.’’ 
But the most interesting of all is the letter from John Bartram 
to Miss Jane Colden dated January 24th, 1757, that begins : 
Joun Barrram To Miss JANE COLDEN.} 
«‘ January the 24th, 1757- 
**T shall be extremely glad to see thee once at my house, and to 
gone from me to learn to be a 
(Captain Childs). I showed him thy letter, and he was so well 
pieased with it, that he presently made a packet of very fine drawings 
for thee, far beyond Catesby’s, took them to town, and told me he 
would send them very soon. I was then in a poor state of health : 
but am now well recovered. We very gratefully receive thy kind 
remembrance, and my two dear friends, thy father and mother. I 
want once more to climb the Katskills; but I think it is not safe to 
venture these troublesome times : ‘ 
: I have had several kinds of the Cochleata, or Snail Trefoil, and 
Trigonella, or Fenugreek ; but, being annual plants, they are gone off. 
he species of Persicary thee mentions, is what Tournefort brought 
from the three churches, at the foot of Mount Ararat. 
The Amorpha is a beautiful flower ; but whether won’t your cold 
Winters kill it ? 
bees fen wee 
ie 
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a Darlington. Memorials, 202. 
t Linnaeus, 
{ Darlington. Memorials, 400. 
