Letter 0709

[fol. 250] Sir the occasion of my giving you the trouble of a […] is to entreat Your assistance in dispatching the enclosed to Dr Preston. I am still busie in adding new species to my Supplement Dr Sherard hath lately sent me a parcell of about 230 dried plants, received from the Prince of Catholica, most of them new & unknown to me, all of them growing in the Hort. Cathol. I am also to make but slow progresse, by the reason of the pains & trouble I labour under. Our undertakers are very slack & remisse in printing this Supplemt. The time is past when they should have published it, & they have not yet begun it. I hear nothing of them I have sent up to Dr Hotton, at his request, a Method of grasses, such as one as I was able to draw up in the circumstances I am now in. My Wife & girls give You their humble services. I am not unsensible of my obligations to you, & return a gratefull memory of them though unable to make You any amends. & therefore must remain Sr, Your most obliged friend & servant John Ray Black Notley Octob. 10. 1701