Letter 4072

[fol. 7] Honred Sr I received yours of ye 3d Instant for which I am very much obliged to you. I have wrote this day to Mr. Richmond and have acquainted him wth what you desired. Dr. Arbuthnot has a brother att Paris, (as you mention) a man of great reputation and who I know is very well acquainted wch the person you design to employ, so that if you write but a line to him he will furnish him wth money according to your desires: you may send orders also att the same time whether you wou’d have all the books contained in the Catalogue which you sent met, the which he has att present, and what other books you wou’d have him buy for you for I believe. he is uncertain, where to goe to work, upon account of the marks which you sent to the titles of some, which you more particularly wanted and wou’d be glad to know of you desired the unmarked if he coud get them att a reasonable price I thank you very heartily for the caution you gave me of the dangerous consequences of ye Lauro-cerasus. which people in this country make much use of in the things you have mentioned, and even in our own family they have often made […] and cherry brancy wth ye leaves and fruit, but happily hither to without any accident. I have since my last to you met wth an odd mixture of two different species in the animal I here send you, of which the sore part is a perfect cat, and the kind has as perfectly the make and motion of a Rabbit, which you will perceive immediatly upon seeing it goe along, which it does by washing wch it’s forelegs like, the former and hopping after like the latter wth its hind; it has no tail but, a small sent: I take it to be a male; It was engender’d as we imagine between a sow cat, and a buck rabbit, which was kept same nor far distant from her. I am sorry I can obtain no other curiosity that [fol. 8] may better deserve a place amongst those most wonderfull productions of Nature which adorn your collections, but hope nevertheless that you will accept of this, (small as it is) as a mark of the sincere duty and respects wth which I am Honred Sr Your most obedient Grandson And most humble servant Rose Fuller Rosehill Sept: 6. 1731 P:S: The Cat will eat milk and catch mice like common cats, and therefore will be of no manner of trouble.