Circumstances of a "cruel war" cuts him off from Smith's "fortunate homeland, fair and free cradle of the liberal arts". Sends through the Stockholm Academy [of Sciences] his new edition of a work by "the divine Linnaeus" [probably fourth edition of "Philosophia botanica"], which he has dedicated to the Linnean Society. Nothing "more fervently desired by all good men and scholars than the resumption of trade with England"; keen to receive the latest additions to [John] Sibthorp's work edited by Smith ["Flora Graeca"].