Peter Collinson thanks Linnaeus for books and seeds that Linnaeus has sent him.
Collinson thanks him especially for Hortus Upsaliensis where he sees how every part of the Uppsala University Botanical Garden is disposed and designed to preserve the plants of a very special type of climate.
Collinson hopes that Linnaeus will be pleased by the seeds he is sending through Johan Henrik Burmester [Burmester to Linnaeus, 1 April 1748{L0887}], who is very eager to be useful to his country. Collinson could have sent more seeds, if the French had not taken some ships under way from North America.
Collinson encloses some treatises, and he is ready to send more if Linnaeus understands English. He asks Linnaeus to forward one by James Logan to Gyllenborg [presumably Henning Adolph Gyllenborg], whom he has known as a great patron of natural history.
Collinson hopes that Linnaeus received the letter [Collinson to Linnaeus, 6 November 1747{L0840}] he sent him through Johan Sandin.
Collinson asks when Linnaeus’s report of the journey to Öland and Gotland Öländska och gothländska resa will be published in Holland. [There was an edition in Holland, but that was not published until 1770, Reizen van [...] Karel Linnaeus [..] door eenige landschappen van Zweeden].
P.S. Collinson tells that Hans Sloane is in good health for his age.