Letter received by Banks from Robert Brooke, 27 December 1792 (Series 55.01) - No. 0001

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St. Helena  27th, Decr.
1792

Sir,

I have the pleasure to inform you that Cap. Bligh in the Providence with the Assistance in Company arrived here safe a few days agoe  & sailed last Night having deposited some Bread Fruit Trees &c here as he was directed & taken away in Return such Trees or Plants from the Island as the Botanist chose to cull for the purposes of Ornament or Utility -- The enclosed papers will serve to shew our sense of the obligations

March 1st 1793