Letter received by Banks from Arthur Phillip, 24 March 1791. (Series 37.14) - No. 0009

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health permits.

I beg that my Compliments may be made acceptable to the ladies of your family, & should be glad to have had it my power to have informed them that Rose had meritted their kind endeavors to serve her. Indeed my Dear Sir, you might have had your laugh long before she reached this Settlement, & my desire of making her better, has only been the means of ruining a poor devil who married her.

I remain with great esteem

Dear Sir
Your Obliged
& Most Obedient
Humble Servant

A Phillip

Sydney
March 24th, 1791.

Six tubs of plants were sent by the Neptune.