I was unwilling to loose the Opertunity per
Cap. Rice—So in 5 or 6 Days time I ordred all the Books to your
Order that Could be gott together. I was so much engaged I could
not go to see them before they was packed—but Hope the Bookseller
has been carefull to send such as will Meet with your
aprobation.
What can be gott to the remainder of your Order
may be sent in the Spring with the things for the Air pump.
Your Bill is in its way to Scotland for
Acceptance.
I am concern’d Capt. Clark was oblig’d to putt
into Rhoad Island.
I have lately receivd a Book on Electricity
from Paris, which I send for thy perusal. Return it by any private
hand. I am perswaded it will afford thee some Entertainment.
I am with much Esteem thy sincere friend
Pray Remember Mee to J: Bartram. If I have leisure I will answer
his Entertaining Letter of 28th July on the Locasts and Dragon
flies &c. I desire he would make Mee a Collection of them. I
Long for the arrival of Budden to see what He has sent Mee. I
wonder he takes no Notice of what of my Orders are come to hand—for
I have sent by several Ships for 13 boxes and now I have an order
for another. I wish the year may prove plentyfull in Seeds for John
Sake besides on order From Powell the Seedsman in Holbourn sent per
J Pemberton for a Tenn or Twenty Guinea Cargo. I hope J. Pemberton
is safe arrived by whome have sent 1 Vol. Lives of Popes &c.
Pray give my Love to him. I Desire my friend John will send Mee in
the next Ships ½ doz. young plants of the small Magnolia for my own
Garden and of the flowering Ivy or next year which he thinks best.
I just now receivd a Present of a New Mapp of
your Province and who I am to thank I [dont] know except Lewis
Evans.