Letter received by Banks from Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture, 21 March 1805 (Series 23.48) - No. 0001

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Sir

Permit me to seize the earliest moment to thank you for your great condescention in giving so much attention to my Queries; I should have been more cautious of multiplying them had I not thought that you might without inconvenience assign ye task to some person whose time is not so valuable, nor applied to such important purposes as your own: But I am greatly obliged to you for favouring me