Letter received by Banks from Archibald Menzies, 14 March1791 (Series 61.06) - No. 0001

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No. 3

Discovery Falmouth
March 14th 1791

Sir Joseph

I wrote to you a few days before we left Portsmouth, but said nothing relative to my Mess, as I was then in hopes that Capt. Vancouverer's [Vancouver] presence might bring the business to a more favourable settlement, on the contrary I found, he was as averse as any of the rest, to submit it to the arbitration of any impartial judge acquainted with the rules of the Navy.  In this situation I resolved to Mess in my own Cabbin but finding that the few utensils and other things necessary to be laid in for so