FO-From Benjamin Franklin to John Bartram, 9 January 1769.md

FO-From Benjamin Franklin to John Bartram, 9 January 1769

2 reprints from 1769-01-09 to 1850-01-01

FO-From Benjamin Franklin to John Bartram, 9 January 1769

by Franklin, Benjamin

From unknown source

1769-01-09

d now decline your long and dangerous peregrinations, in search of your plants, and remain safe and quiet at home, employing your leisure hours in a work that is much wanted, and which no one besides is so capable of performing—I mean the writing a Natural History of our country. I imagine it would prove profitable to you, and I am sure it would do you honour. My respects and best wishes att

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From American Journal of Science and Arts (1820-1879)

1850-01-01 · New Haven

tram to undertake no more long and dangerous peregrinations, at his advanced age, but to devote his leisure hours to “a work that is much wanted, and which no one besides is so capable of per- forming—I mean the writing the natural history of our country. 104 Darlington’s Memorials, §c. I imagine it would prove profitable to you, and I am sure it would do you honor.”—p. 403. Repeating the same advice in a late

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