Carl Magnus Blom writes to Linnaeus to tell him that he has learned from Christian Elov Manger in Copenhagen that Johan Henrik Ferber in Karlskrona will send his sons to Uppsala and Blom asks Linnaeus to recommend him as a tutor for the sons [one of these was Johan Jacob Ferber]. Blom writes that he has left his position with Christian Hebbe and that he has to find a new position and that he will arrive in Stockholm soon. Blom writes that he left Achen on July 12th and arrived in Copenhagen last Saturday. He travelled through Mastricht, Hertzogenbusch, Rotterdam. Haag, Leiden, Amsterdam, Lemmer, Groningen, Neuschants, Lier, Oldenburg, Delmenhorst, Bremen, Harburg, Hamburg and Lübeck. Blom writes that he has not found any natural history of interest, but he met the following persons: Grovonius Jr. [Laurens Theodor Gronovius], Franz van Berckhey’s and the merchant Pet. Cramers [Pieter Cramer] in Amsterdam, the pharmacist Melms in Bremen, the merchant Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf, in Lübeck, and Peder Ascanius and Lorenz Spengler in Copenhagen, where he also visited the King’s [Frederik V] beautiful natural cabinet. Blom promises to tell Linnaeus all about his journey and the people he has met after his arrival in