The Collinson-Bartram Papers include a fragment of a 1762 diary maintained by Peter Collinson, an English merchant and botanist. In some respects, this four-page fragment might be better termed a commonplace book. One of the leaves features extracts from a 1711 publication with notable events of 1709 and 1710, including the arrival of the Palatines ("Lived in Tents"), the plague, the "wrongful" execution of Charles Dean, and the knighting of Charles Wagner. The other pages include several entries (8/7-8/10/1762) in which Collinson refers to various plants and gardens. Although the Finding Aid identifies a second diary fragment dated 1/23/1764, that entry is actually a letter in a correspondence with the Duke of Richmond.