Wants to purchase a copy of Familles des plantes for a friend, who cannot get it in any shop. The writer, an avocat before the Revolution, was executed in 1794, following a charge made against his son, whose name and age were changed in the documents to implicate the father. Ironically the verdict was reversed later; the father exonerated posthumously, and the property returned to his heirs. Annotated, “Repondu le Mercredi 27 Mars 1793 a 9 h. matin,” with draft of Adanson’s reply on the letter noting that all spare copies have been given away and no profit has been realized from the book.