Jonas Theodor Fagraeus thanks Linnaeus for a letter [this letter has not come down to us, but see also Linnaeus to Gerhard Friedrich Müller, 24 April 1764{L3389}] expressing that he feels honoured at being granted such confidence from such an important person.
Linnaeus has recommended Fagraeus to accept a posting in St Petersburg and Fagraeus can hardly find words enough to express his gratitude.
The Alströmer family had not expressed any thing against Fagraeus moving to a more favourable position.
Hedvig Elisabet Alströmer’s sends her greetings, as well as Johan Alströmer. Patrick Alströmer went to Stockholm a week ago, but will soon return. No one other than Hedvig Elisabet Alströmer and Fagraeus’s wife [Sara Fagraeus] know that Linnaeus has shown such kindness towards Fagraeus. During the spring nothing from Clas Alströmer has arrived. As soon as a letter (from him) has been sent to Gothenburg Fagraeus will arrange its delivery to Uppsala. In his last letter to Fagraeus, Clas Alströmer had mentioned his planned trip to England. Fagraeus says that in past years he has studied the cryptogams. He can’t think of Russia without affects. Fagraeus sends his greetings to Linnaeus’s wife, Sara Elisabet Linnaea, to his son Carl Linnaeus the Younger and to the rest of the family.