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Your letter gave me sincere pleasure, as it did to all your numerous friends, but still greater will be the satisfaction of seeing you return which in due time I conclude will take place. It is not for me to advise respecting your mode of proceeding, but after having Read your last Voyage & profited by the very abundant information it contains, you will allow me to feel anxious in the extreme for the Journals &c you have already collected. I sincerely wish you could devise a sort of Spanish Padlock or other Instrument by which they could Be sufficiently guarded from pollution of all kinds & under such care allow them to reside in England till your return. If they were safe I could wait with unabated patience, but I cannot think of the risques they have run & must run with any patience at all.
beleive me my dear Sir with the warmest wishes for the success of all your Undertakings & with sincere & unabated esteem & regard
Very Sincerely Yours
Jos.h Banks
PS 12 Jan.y 1802.
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