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[Draft of letter by Banks]
Sir
I shall certainly be glad to see & peruse any ideas you may commit to writing relative to the means of transporting Convicts to New South Wales with as much economy as is consistent with their safety of these Persons health being of opinion that some mismanagement must have taken place in the arrangements that were taken with made for there future arrival we have lately had advice but must beg you for your own sake to make use of my name at the Treasury with the utmost caution lest the gentlemen there whose interests should think that I mean to assume too great an influence in the business & consequently as it is wholly in their power [resolve?] to allow me none on this subject, however we may talk further when I have seen the papers you advert to.
Soho Square
Augst. 4, 1791