Letter received by Banks from Philip Gidley King, 7 April 1806 (Series 39.101) - No. 0002

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but a very viscious Calamity occasioned by one of the Highest Flood that have occurred has obliged me to engage the Sydney to try some [indecipherable] & it is by that conveyance I forward this, you will readily conceive how much I am occupied at the present moment in preparing my dispatches to go by way of India, these letters I hope you will get a sight of as they contain the detail of our present temporary scarcity.

I have all Col Patersons things safe which should have gone by the Sydney but for the destination being altered & not knowing how they could be forwarded from India I shall therefore wait the first direct conveyance.

With the utmost Respect I am Sir
Your obliged Humble Servt

Philip Gidley King
Sydney Apr 7th 1806