From John Atkinson   3 August 1827

Rev ^d & dear Sir

Two years daily suffering from a puncture in one of my fingers in which I had the misfortune to receive from a patient some morbid virus, has reduced me to a mere skeleton, & much lessened my ardor for Science; if it should however please God to restore me to a numerous Family & to my Friends I trust I shall be able to conform to the wishes expressed in your kind letter by furnishing plants for your Museum — If you will have the kindness to furnish me with a list of your desiderata I would endeavour either thr ^o friends or by other means to procure next summer the peculiar rare ones in this County— Enclosed I send a few duplicates which I hope will prove acceptable, they are chiefly Yorkshire specimens & collected by myself— As it respects any of the rare plants about Cambridge, I should be glad for our Phil: Soc ^y to possess one or two species described by the late Mr. Relhan. I think they were Orchideæ probably now they cannot be procured— I could have sent a few more plants but observe you possess them already my Friend Curtis having figured them in his valuable work—

With best wishes for your success I have the honor to be your ob^d Sev^t | John Atkinson