Johan Hartvig Ernst Bernstorff has received Linnaeus’s letter of 24 December 1764 {L3489}], but has postponed sending an answer, since he hoped more of Peter Forsskål’s material from Egypt and Arabia would come. However, there is no hope of that now.
Bernstorff hopes that the only survivor of the team [Carsten Niebuhr] will survive and succeed in saving the collections and results of the expedition.
Bernstorff thanks Linnaeus for the copy of the Opobalsamum declaratum in dissertatione medica].
Bernstorff promises to send Linnaeus information and material that he believes would interest him. He does this to show his great esteem for Linnaeus.