[1]Viro Doctissimo
Carolo Linnaeo
S[alutem] D[icit]
Iohannes Andrew
En! Hic habes litteras quas videre expetis.[2] Eas longe autem ad Te misissem, si non quotidie Te hic videre expectassem. Ex iis facile percipies, quanti (summo jure certe) Te faciat D[ominus] Ludwig. Et ne sumas in malam partem quod ille a Te quid diversum sentiat. Ille enim optime scit quid profeceris in re Botanica, et nullus dubito quin ille Systema tuum (ut omnes qui illud probe norunt) omnibus caeteris praeferret, sed de his plura quando iterum colloquio tuo fruar.
Valeas itaque et Tuo faveas.
Leydae Die Saturni.
{div-address}[address] A / Monsieur Linnaeus / Chez Monsr Cliffort / A / Amsterdam
EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. This undated letter was presumably written in 1737.
2. See an extract from the letter (sent by Christian Gottlieb Ludwig to John Andrew), written by Linnaeus on a letter from Ludwig to Linnaeus, 14 January 1737 n.s.{L0135}.