Olof Celsius is enclosing a Lychnis [specimen of Silene noctiflora L., enclosed on fol. 33] he recently found near his barn on the way to Rikomberga [Rickomberga]. He gives a Latin description of it. The gardener has taken on the most valuable [plants] in Celsius’s flower benches.
There is no news about the consistorial voting concerning the professors [at the Uppsala University].
Hortus Cliffortianus, very beautiful, has arrived.
P.S. Celsius mentions Olof Celsius, and his invention to make impressions of plants [enclosed imprints on fol. 35-37]. He was inspired by a book brought by Johan Hesselius from America where his uncle, a clergyman [Samuel Hesselius], smeared black paint on plants and pressed them. This book now belongs to Carl Gyllenborg. However, Olof Celsius the Younger has considerably improved this method.