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Articles, you deserve however some reward from me for your diligence & activity.
You have I understand the Lease of a Farm from Governor King, if you wish to employ yourself in the cultivation of it or if you wish to return home, I am willing to settle £50 a year upon you for your life & to Release you from all Services to me beyond what you voluntarily wish to perform, you would probably chuse [choose] if any thing new should fall in your way to send it to me but as I mean your Annuity as a recompence for past services I shall not bind you to any future ones till I hear from you on this subject & till the whole can be arrangd & settled every thing to go on as it has hitherto done.
Mr. Brown & W. Bauer are well, they are busily employd in arranging & making Drawings of the immense Collections they have brought home. Brown has I hope got more than half through. Bauer whose work is much slower not a Quarter.
Dickson is well as is also Mr. Dryander your specimens & descriptions are carefully preserved for you, but I cannot say that Botany continues to be quite as fashionable as it usd to be. The immense number of new Plants that have every year accumulated seem to deter the people from making Collections as they have little hopes of making them perfect in any branch.