Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]

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Title: Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]

Scope & content: Written from Bogota [Bogota, Colombia]

Letter No 72

He has packed up 14 chests of his collections, including 25 species of Orchidaceae, several fine Thibaudia floribunda, four boxes of roots and cuttings planted in earth, 121 kinds of seeds and over 4,000 dried specimens consisting of 357 species; he will procure mules to travel to Guaduas [Colombia], where he will stay a few days, before continuing down the Magdalena River [Colombia] to Cartagena [Colombia]; the town of Guaduas is 5,000 feet above the sea and as the surroundings are well-wooded, he expects to find new Orchidaceae, and has heard that the wax palm is common; he has written to Messrs Polhemus & Mickle about the missing chest from Cuenca [Ecuador]; he drew £100 on the credit with Messrs Joaquin Escovar and Pedro Uribe Arango [merchants in Ecuador]

Hartweg's accounts for 13 Feb-13 Jan 1843 comprise 'monthly allowance' $50, 'wages of mozo [servant]' $5, 'keeping of three mules' $10.6 and 'postage' $0.6