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[1]
Letter 18 January 1774, London to Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
Miller, John
, 1715-1780
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Incipit
Multum doleo te non respondisse ad duas Epistolas
Origin
London
, Great Britain, 18 Jan. 1774
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Transcription
Illustrissime Domine,
Multum doleo te non respondisse ad duas Epistolas tibi jam diu amendatas, unam scilicet per Dominum de Noliken Baronem docentem me dedisse in Custodiam Doctoris Gahn plures vestri Systematis Tabulas, quas fideliter promisit tibi daturas, alteram vero per Viam ordinariam (The Post), ut inde citius discere potuisses me navi Suecicae ad Northkopping cursum iturae, et appelate [
sic
] Happy Return, sub Gubernatore Griwahn, duas Theobomae augustae Plantas et Illicii. Unam commisisse omnes optime conservatas – sin autem ad manus vestras mea non adhuc pervenerit Epistola, valde timeo, ne perierint Plantae. Et mihi Luctus ampla Causa foret, quia planta apud Nos Illicium dicta est rarissima.
Ardentissime cupis, et exoro te mihi rescripturum de hisce Rebus ad amici anxii solamen procurandum et informandum eodem tempore, quando operum tuorum Editio apparabit [sic] et ubinam.
Inclusum mitto Characterem Floris Brunfelsiae americanae; Pericarpium vero non ad maturitatem pervenit.
Nihilominus accuratissime delineatur.
Credas velim, Illustrissime Domine, me tibi
addictissimus esse
John Miller
Lond[ini] 18 Jan[uarii] 1774.
P.S. Causa mittendi hanc Epistolam per Viam supra dictam ordinariam (Post) oritur a suspicione, precor, male fundata, ne quis malam partem impetraverit at impediendam Systematis vestri completionem – ad quodnam sceleris genus Invidia non impellit mortalia pectora!
A Monsieur
Monsieur Charles de Linné
Archiateur & Chevalier de
Le Ordre Polaire etcc.
Upsal
Illustrations
On fol. 139r: Illustrations in colour of parts of plants. Lente auct..
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, X, 139-140).
Document type
Letter
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Uppsala University Library
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
Linnaean correspondence
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-233577
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L4951
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:233577
(alvin)
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