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Letter 12 October 1752, Oxford to Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala
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Letter 12 October 1752, Oxford to Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
Sibthorp, Humphrey
, 1713-1797
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Origin
Oxford
, Great Britain, die 12 Octobris 1752
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Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Transcription
Viro ornatissimo,
Botanicorum Principi,
S[alutem] P[lurimam] D[icit]
Humphredus Sibthorp.
Epistolam Tuam, Vir celeberrime, una cum Schedis impressis recta via accepi; pro his maximas Tibi debitas ago gratias, quas citius referendas expectes, & vereor, ne in ingratum aeque ac immerentem honores Tuos collocasse videaris. Plurima vero in causa fuerunt, quibus responsorium ad hoc tempus detuli; prae caeteris nihil habui attentione Tua dignum. Instante vero Autumno Semina sub dio maturescentia perennia ex horto pro Te collecta jussi, quorum plurima clima vestrum ferre queant & inde, ni fallor, acceptissima. Plenam etiam messem Tibi promittere possumus. His etiam quaedam innominata, ut nuperrime mihi missa ex Insulis Americanis, addido cum paucis aliis ex hybernaculis, quae spes nostras ne minus fallant exopto quam Semina antea missa; & utinam data esset occasio qua alia a Tuo penu recipiam cum Imagine Tua impressa, quam vellem plurimum, ut in Bibliotheca nostra inter alias collocam! Tabellarium vero oneres malo quam penitus deficiant & quaenam gratissima antea indigitavi, uti Semina perennium praesertim arborum fruticum et cujuslibet novae plantae vel speciosae qualiacunque vero sunt vel adaugeant nostrum catalogum vel emendent et citius missa acceptiora in Tempore enim venire (hiemali dicam) omnium rerum est primum.
In reducendis Speciebus Plantarum non minus bene occupatus es quam in generalibus ordinandis & mihi credas non minus volo, ut possem Te adire. Varietates loco Specierum saepius invenimus et easdem dignoscere modo Labor est. Perges Pinacis opus facilius reddere.
Gratulor Te, quod pro meritis suis evectus est in Professoris Locum Discipulus Tuus D[ominus] Lofling. Utinam eum vel parem retinere potui, quin Botanophili pauciores extant nobiscum quam apud Te!
Sibthorpiam Tuo Favore dictam a Coenubia vel alibi non procurare possem, quo clarius fructificationem examinem. D[ominus] Victorine Amicus Londinensis, Reverendi D[omini] Guoring avunculus, me habere curabit, quodcunque mittes pretiumque persolvat; cujus curae commissus est Seminum fasciculus. Floram tandem Suecicam, Hortum Upsalensem & Philosophiam Botanicam perfectos habeo; plura vero ex Tuis scriptis lego, plura percupio, &, si desiderata supplere non dedigneris, Litterae ultimae indicabunt.
Qui & quales Botanici & quid novi in nostris oris plane haereo, quid dicam. Sloane Horti Chelsaeni patronus adhuc extat, cujus Hortulanus novam sui Dictionarii Editionem nuperrime edidit; unde vero Definitiones & materiam congessit vix Te latet, nec qualis Botanicus D[ominus] Hill, Petrus Collinson & alii Plantarum collectores; non desunt Horti curiosorum, qui Botanicorum nomine vix digni sunt.
Ehret hortum nostrum relinquens victum vestitumque sibi parat artem suam Sexum muliebrem docendo. Enumerationem plantarum Horti Florentini, ubi quaedam nova Genera constituantur, non vidi, diu autem expectavi. Gottingenses Botanicum ad Insulas Americanas pro Seminibus colligendis paraturi sunt; satis his abundas ex largo professoris Kalm penu, & quid in Re Botanica agitur vix Te latet, nec diutius Te notissimis morer vale itaque & fave!
Dabam Oxonii die 12 Octobris 1752.
Regiae Scientiarum Societati
Upsaliae
at M[essieu]rs Bohman & Hassel
Stockholm [
added with another hand
]
Med. Törnlun [
added with another hand
]
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, XIV, 61-62).
Document type
Letter
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Uppsala University Library
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
Linnaean correspondence
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-224974
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L1490
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:224974
(alvin)
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