Title:
Adriaan van Royen to Carl Linnaeus
Type:
Image
Licence:
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Repository:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Linnaean Correspondence
Reference number:
LC/12/145
Archival level:
Item
Date:
15 August 1749
Placement:
Volume 12: 296-297
Extent:
296-297
Description:
Adriaan van Royen has got an opportunity to write to Linnaeus through Conrad Wishoff. Mimulus, Capparis and the Monardae are flowering. The Aloë Americana, which is said to have come from Vera Crux, is spectacular and attracts all attention. Royen’s elder brother, [David van Royen] who resigned as secretary during the rising at Leiden, has been given new honours by the Prince of Orange [William IV] and has now been made pensionary against the will of the people. In this way virtue is pressed but not suppressed. Johan Frederik Gronovius is well. On 10 March in 1749 Royen answered Linnaeus’s letter dated 20 February 1749 [none of these letters have come down to us]. He also enclosed seeds. P.S. Royen will collect and send seeds later on.
Sender:
Royen, Adriaan van
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Transcription:
Clarissimo Viro, Suavissimo Amico, Carolo Linnaeo, S[alutem] P[lurimam] D[icit] A[drianus] V[an] Royen. Non potui non, nata per Bibliopolam Wishovium oportunitate, paucis te compellare, et quid agas inquirere. Quod scribam, fateor, vix habeo. Unum tamen alterumve est, cujus Te certiorem fieri attinet; nimirum omne genus plantarum rariorum et Exoticarum mira foecunditate florere, Mimulum, Capparin, Monardas et, quae omnium in se oculos allicit defixosque tenet, plantam speciosissimam, Aloen Americanam foliis glaucis, planis, nitidis, quam vulgo vocant Vera Cruce. 1° Mensis Maji futurae Florescentiae & Fructificationis signa dedit prima, et nutantibus, ut in hoc stirpium genere solenne est, frondibus evidentissima. Hodie 17 pedum Rhenolandicorum altitudinem emensa, ramos florigeros spargit quam plurimos, nondum tamen apertos; si deinceps dignum quid memoratu dederit Fructificatio, sedulo observata commonefaciam in proximis. Frater germanus natu major, qui in seditione Leydensi non ita diu secretarii munus resignavit, novis a Celsissimo & serenissimo Principe Aransioco honoribus auctus, constitutus est Pensionarius, invita et frendente Plebe tumultuanti; sic virtus premitur, non opprimitur. Ampl[issimus] noster Gronovius bene habet, nec dubito, quin litteras ab eo habueris jam ante quadrimestre spatium. Equidem ad Tuas 20 Febr[uarii] 1749 ad me datas respondi 10 Martii Ejusd[em] hujus anni, simulque semina misi quam plurima. Utraque Ampl[issimi] Gronovii curae, quo promptius ad Te expedirentur, commisi. Num acceperis significa in proximis! Interim Vale & me quod facis amare perge! Dabam Leydae Batavorum ad d[iem] 15 Augusti 1749. P.S. Matura colligam & oportuniori tempore mittam semina. Iterum Vale! Address Monsieur Monsieur C[arolus] Linnaeus Professeur tres celebre dans la Medecine, Botanique &c. &c. a Upsal
Previous reference number:
L1044
Condition note:
Small tear r.h.edge 296 recto. Seal tear. Seal present.
