Letter from John Forbes to Joseph Sabine [secretary of the Horticultural Society of London]

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Title: Letter from John Forbes to Joseph Sabine [secretary of the Horticultural Society of London]

Scope & content: Written from Spithead

Marked at the top of the page 'No 3'. Annotated at the top of page: 'Joseph Sabine received Feb 15 1822, and [answered] May 2 1822'

The ship is about to sail and as he has not yet received the 'pins' for Sacramento [Leandro do Sacramento, Carmelite friar and botanist in Brazil], he has left orders at Portsmouth for them to be forwarded to Plymouth; he received the letter from Earl Henry Bathurst [Henry Bathurst, 3rd earl of Bathurst, British secretary of state for war and colonies] to Lord Charles Somerset [Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa]