Catalogue of Fungi

Also this seemed to excuse my boldness, in that Your Serene Highness now receives, as a specimen of my work, a portion of that beloved science most humbly presented by me.

With the most dutiful wishes for the well-being of Your Serene Highness, I recommend myself to your grace, I who consider it the greatest good fortune to be permitted to call myself

Weimar, the 25th of June, 1783.