Letter 3164

[fol. 349] Hond Sr The begining of last weeke I received yr letter & on saterday last yr glatrouse [?] & obliging present of Lob: Jeones [?] & yr 2d vol: of yr Nat: Hist: of Jamaca for which I now return yu my hearty thankes; by the litle spare time I have had to inspect it since it came, I find it to be a very elaborate & lumiouse performance & worthy of so great an Author. when I am a litle more at liberty I wil carefully & with much pleasure read it over. & I do not doubt but it wil fully answer my expectation. I am very sorry you have been so uncivilly used by my old friend the Consul; I heartily wish yu had acquainted me with your desire of seing Breynius’s collection before it was returned or any thing the Consul was master of for as I was in intrested in desiring the favoure of you to communicate to him severall curiouse collections of plants in yr possession in order to crry on more effectually his edition of Barkinus’s Priax [?] which yu very headily & freely complyed with; & indeed common justice ought to have obliged him to promote yr designe with the same zeal & friendship yu did his & I can not forbear taking it ill from him if he weather continue to be fair I thinke of taking a Tour into the north next weeke & if I meet with any thing worth communicating to yu, yu may be assured to hear from your most obliged servant Ric: Richardson North Bierley June 3d 1725