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I hope will prove to you my Attention to the Discipline of this Ship as well as to your several Orders, I am
Sir
Your most obedient Servant
(Signed) Joseph Short
Captain Bligh Esqr
&c &c &c.
Attested
Wm Bligh [Signature]
(Copy)
Government House, Sydney
10th December 1806
Sir
On my return from my Journey throughout the Settlements, I received this morning by the hands of Mr. Murphy, Midshipman of the Porpoise Your Letter dated the 1st Instant I apprehend the Date is wrong as he had just received it from you and a letter subsequent to it dated the 5th Instant which has been delivered to me by a Messenger in the Country.
I have to inform you likewise that on my setting out on my Journey, Lieutenant Tetley wrote me a Letter complaining of you and that Mr. Lye about the Same time came with a Complaint to the same Effect which I directed him to State in writing But would not have any conversation with him on the