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trust reposed in me, I cannot avoid using every effort in my power to obtain his discharge, and hope when Lord Sandwich is acquainted with the provision made, at least the door left open for us by the Laws, I may hope it will not in this instance be shut against us.
I am pleased that my Garden has afforded any little addition to that Vast treasure of Botany, now I suppose properly ranging in Soho Square. If the seeds lately sent from Bengall, amounting to 149, different Laruls [Laurels] and a still larger quantity, which I purchased from Shakespear, Cheifly Jamaica plants should [indecipherable], we may possibly supply in a future season, a few more [indecipherable]. I may possibly at my return be made acquainted with the water Lily - I was in hopes when I got it, that it might have proved the Nymphaea Nelumbo.
I am with much gratitude and esteem thy Frd
John Fothergill
4/8 1777. -
P.S. I will add my name at full length to the preface - and a line sent to me at Harpurs Hill will find me somewhere.
fr. Fothergill
Augst. 4 --77