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Copy of a letter from Mr Vaughan

Dear Sir

I have this Moment received your favo[u]r, and with very great regret found that our poor Masson was no more. I was in hopes that it had not been true; but in consequence of my enquiries this day I am sorry the account is confirmed by a Gentleman whose connections in Canada and residence there for [illeg] many years has given him the means of knowing what is going forward there, He told me that Masson was dead and died in December, and that he had made while there many Collections of plants &ca[.] He could not himself inform me what prospects he might have left? behind him but that his friends were at Montreal.
	I wish you Botanists who have so much the Power of regenerating of Plants as by Seeds, as by Slips could perform the same friendly deed by our poor friend! but I hope what he has left behind him will be sufficient to make him Known and that we shall have in younger Botanists many a Masson. I have not seen you for an Age[.] Do you never come this way. I am anxious to learn how your South America plants thrive[.]
I go down to Bringhton on Saturday [.] will you take a flying - - Trip as when we went together[?]
I shall be up on Monday[.]
			I am Dr Sir
Mar. 18th -1806-	Yours sincerely 
			Signed W Vaughan 