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stay in china & take every opportunity of communicating by Letters to Mr Aiton and me. such circumstances relative to yourself or to the object of your [mission?] as you think we ought & be acquainted with, your letters to me may be short, merely stating such circumstances of your progress & general success as occur readily to you, these to Mr Aiton must be very much in detail, stating the whole of your employment, giving him from time to time catalogues of the Plants you have procured & those you have forwarded to him by any opportunity & also intelligence of what further opportunities you expect to meet with of sending more Plants & the times when they are likely to occur
in your Letters to Mr Aiton you will carefully state all such circumstances relative to the Plants you send home as are likely to occur be useful in their future cultivations, the names of the Countries from where they have been bought, the nature as far as you can deem it of the climates in which they naturaly