Letter received by Banks from Archibald Menzies, 3 January1798 (Series 61.35) - No. 0001

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Sir Joseph

I received your kind letter this morning and return my sincerest thanks for your friendly admonitions and solicitations respecting the finishing of my Journal before Captain Vancouver's is published. - It is what I most ardently wish, for more reasons than one, and therefore have lately applied to it very close: - I generally get up five in the morning and continue at it, with as little interruption as possible till six or seven in the evening daily. The Volume I am now at work upon (and which is nearly finished) I once thought would include the whole of the remainder of the Narrative, but I find it will not, though it is much larger than either.

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