Title:
Abraham Bäck to Carl Linnaeus
Type:
Image
Licence:
Contact [email protected]
Repository:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Linnaean Correspondence
Reference number:
LC/1/116
Archival level:
Item
Date:
27 February 1744
Placement:
Volume 1: 245
Extent:
245
Language:
sv
Description:
Abraham Bäck thanks Linnaeus for his latest letter [Linnaeus to Bäck, 27 January 1744], which Bäck had received a few days after he sent his former letter [this letter has not come down to us]. Bernhard de Jussieu sends his regards to Linnaeus. He will answer the letter [the next preserved letter from Jussieu to Linnaeus is dated 7 April 1745], and has given Bäck a package of seeds that Bäck encloses. A similar set will be given to Bäck every week, and Bäck will send them to Linnaeus through Claes Ekeblad. Bäck has received from the printer Michel-Antoine David a copy of a new edition of Genera plantarum [Bäck refers to the Genera plantarum, 3nd edition] with a letter that Bäck encloses. He will send the volume as soon as possible. He wants to know why Linnaeus has not provided the Justicia Houstonia with a pistil. The new edition has copied the Dutch edition [Bäck refers to Genera plantarum [...] Editio secunda] very well, so that they both can be called “editio secunda”. The work is very much in demand by all the botanists in Paris. Bäck is surprised that Linnaeus has not got any letter from him for a year. Bäck is quite well and likes Paris. P.S. Bäck tells that he has no news other than about the conflict between France and England. It is too early to say anything about the outcome.
Sender:
Bäck, Abraham
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Sent to location:
[Uppsala, Sweden]
Transcription:
Edle och Widtberömde Herr Professor, Några dagar efter thet jag öfwersändt mitt sista til Herr Professorn, hade jag den äran at ärhålla Herr Professorns gunstiga bref, för hwilket jag aflägger min ödmiukasta tacksäijelse. M[onsieur] Bernhard Jussieu ber mig hälsa H[err] Professorn mångfalldigt. Han will swara på angenäma brefwet med det första. Sänder i medlertid härjemte en liten packa med fröen. Har lofwat gifwa mig en sådan hwar wicka at öfwerstyra til Herr Professorn. Jag will draga försorg, at de richtigt komma til H[err] Grefwen och Ministern Ekeblad. Bokför[are] David hafwer gifwit i mina händer et Exemplar af Nova Ed[itio] Gener[a] Plantar[um], med et bref, at sända til H[err] Professorn, brefwet följer härinnelycht. Boken will jag sända wid tilfälle. Hwaraf kommer det at H[err] Professorn eij satt ut pistillum på Justicia Houst[onia]. Den nya Edition har så wel copierat den senare Hollendska, at de jemwel kallat denna Editio secunda. Caeterum opus est desideratissimum omnibus Botanices studiosis Parisiis. Jag wet eij huru det hänger hop, at H[err] Professorn intet fått bref af mig på et åhr. Jag lefwer med utwaldt nöije HögEdle och Widtberömde H[err] Professorns ödmiukaste tjenare Abrah[am] Baeck. Paris d. 27 Febr. n. st. 1744. Här wankas nu intet andra noveller än om fransosernas descente i England. Huru det lyckas, wet man eij ännu hittills. A. Monsieur M[onsieur] Charles Linnaeus Professeur en Medecine á Upsal.
Previous reference number:
L0534
