JB/540/232/001

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J.B. to Lee Nursery Man Hammersmith

Dear Sir Jafly in Moldavia Jan. 1785

About the beginning of Nov.r I left ch being
on the point of leaving Smyrna I charged Capt.
R. Brine of the Mary Frances with a packet
containing from fourscore to 100 different sorts of
seeds collected at physic gardens & in the course of my travels in France
Italy & in Levant, also some plants of Raisins & Currents without slowes of which if I do not mis recollect
I gave you advice by the post. — About a month
ago I left in the hands of Mr James an English Merchant
at Para near Constantinople another packet containing
some Asiatc acorns that I thought might possibly
be new and about 6 or 8 sorts of seeds from the
northern parts of China sent amongst others by Mr Davidoff
of Moscow to a gentleman at Constantinople. They were the only part I could find time to procure out of a
collection of about 300 many of which, as far as
my imperfect acquaintance with Botany enables
me to judge I imagine to be little if at all known
in England. I imagine it will not be long before
I visit Moscow, and I shall then not neglect
to make acquaintance with Mr Davidoff, whose
great wealth and passion for Botany may afford to his
friends such opportunities of making collections from the Northern
parts of China and other unexplored countries regions bordering
upon or included in the Russian Empire as perhaps
are hardly obtainable through any other channel.
I have provided such a present as I hope will
be acceptable to him, and if I meet with him
my endeavours shall not be wanting to bring you
and him to a correspondence.

The purpose of the present letter is to desire
you to send on my account to Mr
Bulhakoff the Russian Envoy at Constantinople
as compleat a collection as can be obtained in London
of seeds of all sorts of seeds plants particularly kitchen garden seeds
as will live in that climate where there is now & then
some frost but very little, without hot-house or green-house.

Identifier: | JB/540/232/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1786-01-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	232	Info in main headings field
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