Series 09.09: Letter received by Banks from Lord Sandwich, 12 October 1782 - No. 0002

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my desire is that it should be entirely managed by you, & that you should do it in any channell or by any agent that you prefer.  If I recollect the substance of the letter I wrote to you I rather lamented that by your absence in the country a month might possibly be lost, which in this affair is a period of some importance.  As to Mr Webber, I have never seen or heard from him since I first wrote to you about him, nor have I the least inclination that he should or should not be employed in this business.  

I am allmost [almost] afraid of saying anything that looks like pressing for more dispatch, & in doing it I must premise that I know not how you can do more than you have done by writing to Mr [Penkanke?], and offering him the douceur which you have