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93<br />
104 according to the Catalogue happily<br />
& luckily this fell into Gordons Hands<br />
Had it fell to any one Else I should have<br />
ashamed eC confounded for my honour lay at<br />
Stake for 1 assured every one there was in<br />
the Boxes Seeds according to the Catalogue<br />
e . .<br />
John Bartram to Peter Collinson, August 8, 1763, V?ildman<br />
Transcriptions, p. 597<br />
1 have this week received my dear<br />
Peters letter <strong>of</strong> flay ye packet which at<br />
first sight allmost made my heart leap for<br />
Joy but when 1 read but for want <strong>of</strong> care<br />
and exactness or perhaps left to some care-<br />
less person to pack up one <strong>of</strong> ye boxes had<br />
but 8 sorts <strong>of</strong> seeds instead <strong>of</strong> 109 this<br />
hocked me down at once but considering<br />
this was not ye 1st or 2d or third time that<br />
I have been rashly censored t% reproached when<br />
I have hazarded life h limb both my own &<br />
children using my utmost endeavour to oblige<br />
my correspondents I revived again surely<br />
you must think I am a careless fool When<br />
I know from long experience that ye least<br />
neglect will heap coals <strong>of</strong> fire upon my<br />
head but ye method I take its impossible<br />
to make such i? mistake , . but I cant<br />
watch them all along after until they come<br />
to your hands nor keep them from being<br />
rifeled neither on board ye ship nor after<br />
they are landed<br />
Peter Collinson to John Bartram, January 1, 1764, Wildman<br />
Transcriptions<br />
It is with concern I hear <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Insurection at Fittsburgh in such an<br />
Hurry I don't wonder ye Curious things<br />
Suffered the loss <strong>of</strong> the alegator is<br />
most to be regretted if it ,is an allegator -<br />
which I much doubt, as these animals have<br />
never been found in such cold latitudes,<br />
but few in No Carolina & none ever heard<br />
<strong>of</strong>f in Virginia<br />
Peter ' Collinson to John Rartram, June 8, 1761,, Wildman<br />
I dont know what to do with these<br />
Germans; some <strong>of</strong> the Boxes was open'd eC<br />
plundered <strong>by</strong> the Spanish, one <strong>of</strong> Gordons<br />
I saw was so served so; possibly these<br />
might be so too.
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