I had the pleasure of my Worthy Friend Docr Hallers Favour p[er] the hands of Mr Gynander. Altho’ I am a stranger to your Person, yett I am not to your Great Knowledge & distinguish’d Merit.

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I answer’d your favour of the 30 Decemr p[er] mine of January 12th ulto, Which I sent to Mr Gynander to be Conveyed to your Hands.

I now send you a few Seeds. Had not the French taken a Ship from North America, you would have had great Variety of Virginia Seeds. Our Proverb is (what Wee cannot Cure Wee must Endure) so Wee must hope For Peace & Better Times.

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I am greatly Obliged to my Dear Friend Docr Haller for his favour of the 11th Inst[an]t & thank you for the conveyance of our Worthey Fr[ien]dMr Gmelins seeds – & for the others you Intend Mee. I had some years agon fine plants of the Cortusa, but lost them by an accident. Pray where is Its Native place where it grows spontaneously[?]

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I am much Obliged to you for yr Curious Book, wch gives Gives Mee great Pleasure in the Perusal.

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I herewith send You Some Pensilvania seeds. Little is to be Expected from them this year but I advise you to sow them Immediately, & this I can assure you of my own Knowledge that some of these Seeds will Lie in the Ground one, Two, nay Three years before they come up. This I give you Timely Notice off that you do not Disturbe them untill the fourth Summer is over.

very Justly observes & concludes that the Sumach is no rarity in our Gardens & yett the Species I want to see is really so, for I dont know that it is in any Garden Here [for] there was undoubtedly a Species of Sumach peculiar to Europe & Asia Long before North America was discover’d as there was a Species of Arbor Judea & yett another Species very Nearly resembling it was found in North America. Wee have four distinct Species of Sumach from N. Ameria in our Gardens.

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I have before Mee my Dear Friend Doctor Hallers Kind Letters of June 13 Augt 8 & 29 for which I am under many obligations and note all your Curious Learned remarks. I am not Satisfied about the Rhus ulmifolio. Pray send Mee specimens of the Leaves, for Wee have an American Rhus with a Velvet Bark.

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I am much Obliged to my Dear FrdDocr Haller for his favour of the 31st ulto and for the further Instance of his Friendship. The mention of my Name I must attribute to your Excess of Politeness & not to any real Merit of Mine. I thank you for the trouble You have taken to distribute my pacquets. I pitty poor Gersten that he should suffer his passion to gett the ascendant of his Reason. My Debt is but small, and I should not have mention’d It, but that I thought He was now in good Circumstance.

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I am greatly Obliged to my Dear Fr[ien]dDocr Haller for his favour of the 24. May & for his curious Work in which is shown Mee too much Honour. It Afforded Mee great Pleasure in the perusal to know the Native Place of the many Rare Plants you Mention.

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