Letter received by Banks from John Sibthorp, 10 June 1793 (Series 72.154) - No. 0001

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Oxford June 10th. 1793

Sir

The Honor which has [his] Majisty has graciously condescended to do the Oxford Garden in supplying its deficiencies from His Royal Garden at Kew, excites in me the greatest  & warmest Sentiments of Gratitude.

To your kind Care this Commission in which I feel myself so much flattered is entrusted and as I am well acquainted with your great Zeal in the Cause of Sciences I am the more encouraged to tell our wants. I have as you requested communicated a list of such Plants, that I think could any part of them be spared, we could receive within our Walls and even under the narrow Circumstances of the Garden we might be able to support -  No  Increase of Allowance having been made since the Year 1726 that Celebrity which the Oxford Garden claimed as being the most ancient, as well