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Soho Square April 18. 1803
Mr. Wm. Kerr
as his majesty has been graciously pleasd to select you from among your Fellow Gardiners & appoint you to the very Desirable office of Collecting the Plants of Foreign Countries for the use of the Royal Gardens, thereby holding out to you a Prospect, in case you are diligent attentive & Frugal, of raising yourself to a better Station in Life then your former prospects permitted you to expect & of intitling yourself in case your conduct is meretorious & your success Eminent, to still for the [indecipherable] of his majesties gracious condescention, which is never witheld from those who realy deserve it, your inducements to diligence & good conduct are as great as can posibly be held out to any young man [indecipherable]
The voyage you are now to be employd in must be considerd by you as an apprenticeship, in the Course of which you will Learn to Conduct yourself with sobriety under the various circumstance & in the different