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Forfar 28 June 1802 

Mr Aiton i

Sir I received your letter of the 19th cur[rentl]y and in observing its contents in answer of which is that I can supply you with most of your order and shall do it as soon as the season will answer. My collection of indigenous plants is very considerable having paid a good deal of attention to the collecting as well as the cultivation of them for some years past and my collection of hardy foreign plants is very respectable not any collection in Scotland is before it and not any in England that ever I saw except Kew and Cambridge[.] the latter collection I never saw but I have been five or six times through Kew collection some years ago which is certainly far superior -

Of late I am paying a particular attention to Cryptogramma and have of late made several new discoveries in that department of natural history some of which will make their appearance in Dr Smith'sii Flora Britan[n]ica.

I have taken the liberty to subjoin a list of some more indigenous plants as well as some foreign ones which you can choose amongst them which are a few that I have no doubt some of them may be equally desirable as those mentioned in your list[.] They are as follows
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i William Townsend Aiton (also Ayton), 2 February 1766 - 9 October 1849
ii Sir James Edward Smith, President of the Linnaean Society, 2 Dec 1759 - 17 Mar 1828
iii This letter was from Mr George Don senior (October 1764 - 14 January 1814), who was a Scottish botanist.