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My List is already long, I will therefore conclude my Wants: but if you think of anything in that way particularly pretty, or useful which I have forgot, be so good as add them if you can.  {Line}
Copy of a Letter from Mr Francis Massoni
Dear Sir	Montreal 17th -- Oct[obe]r -- 1805 --
I have been honoured with your Letter of the 5th of August the Contents of which was highly pleasing to me, it exceeded my most sanguine expectations, and as His Majesty has graciously pleased to  give me leave to choose what Conveyance I think may best suit me. I have alwayii thought  that by N.iii York would be the safest.I shall therefore when the Ice upon the Lakes is strong transport myself there, and come home in the Spring. I wrote to Sir Joseph.iv and addressed a Box of plants packed [with] Moss; but there is nothing very interesting among them [.]
Last Year I sent you many cuttings of Willows and this year I have sent more: they grow upon very dry Mountains,  and flower very early in the Spring, and is the earliest food for the Bees. In the Box you will promiscuous among the Moss find some Roots of Cypripedium acaule fl. albo.v Trillium reflexum a N.vi Sp. a few are numbered viz 1 Lysimachia cor -- niculata vii andviii ampibuousix plant [.] 2 Rosa virginica. 3 Juglans pecanx (It has met with several accidents on its several journiesxi, when it arrives it will be proper to put into Hot-house to force it [.] 4 Valisneriaxii capsulaexiii. It will be proper to divide the Seed from its glutinous pod, and sow them in a Pot in mud, and plunge them in deep Water [.] 5 Prunus: Bird Cherry with white Fruit [.] 6 Crataegus fructu. xiv pyriformexv luteaxvi [.] 7 Crataegus fructu lutea minor [.]
I am in Hopesxvii yet to be able to make a Collection of acquaticxviii Plants to send home by the last Ships -- [.]
I send the Chest, and Letters addressed to Mr. Todd who will forward them by the best opportunity. I have had great difficulty to get the few things together owing to exceedingxix rainy weather for a Month past -- [.]
My sincere good Wishes to Mrs Aitonxx , Yo ur Brother and Sisters, and believe me to be most sincerely    Yours 
Signed Francis Masson
i Masson, Francis, Mr, 1741-1805.Viaf 37696783 Had been working in Canada since 1797( https://www.jstor.org/stable/45065596)  Died 2 months after the date of this letter. So did not return in the Spring.
ii always
iii New
iv Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820, appointed director of Kew by George III. VIAF 46830189
v Cypripedium acaule f. albiflora E.L.Rand & Redfield . A synonym of Cypripedium    	acaule (Plantsoftheworld.org)
vi New or Northern species?
vii Corniculata sp. of Lysimachia cannot be found on any plant reference sites. Word is split cor -- niculata because it is across two lines.
viii an?
ixAmphibious
x   	Family Juglandaceae,                                                                                                	Subfamily Juglandoideae,
   	Tribe Juglandeae
   	Subtribe Caryinae        Carya Nutt. - hickory and pecan
  	 Subtribe Juglandinae   Juglans L. - walnut

xi journeys
xii  Also spelt Vallisneria.
xiii Vallisneria has banana-like seed capsules
xiv Possibly short for fructuosa , there is a Crataegus fructuosa on ipni.org. Fructuosa means fruitful in latin
xv pyriforme means pear-shaped in latin (possibly referring to the fruit)
xvi lutea means yellow in latin and is used for a number of yellow plant species (possibly referring to the fruit)
xvii hope
xviii aquatic
xix exceedingly
xx Wife of Aiton, William Townsend,Mr, Viaf 4416060 W.T. Aiton  2 February 1766 - 9 October 1849. Director of Kew Gardens 1793 -1841