BANKS (Sir Joseph, 1743-1820, President of the Royal Society, Travelled with Captain Cook)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to William Townsend AITON (1766-1849, Gardener and Botanist) thanking him for the "Pears you sent to me. I forwarded them to Mr Wickham who was much delighted with them as he is in office for much foreign Correspondence & is a sincere lover of gardening ... I will make you acquainted with him when summer comes. With this you will receive the seeds I have collected in the Winter, they are not many but they are all I have left beyond those I have before sent to you. They are in the Portmanteau ... which brought the Pears. I have a few seeds of Timber Trees from Seven Island ... you shall soon have them ...", 1 side 4to., with autograph address on the conjugate leaf with a postscript signed with initials referring to the seeds, together with a contemporary engraving, Soho Square, 8th March

Aiton's father was a gardener at Kew and William carried on his excellent management of the Royal Forcing and Pleasure Gardens at Kew. He worked closely with Banks and together they raised the gardens to a pre-eminent position in the horticultural and botanical worlds. Banks, Jonas Dryander and Robert Brown assisted Aiton with a second, enlarged edition of his father's Hortus Kewensis.

Item Date:  1818

Stock No:  39496     

                


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