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wish every thing to be sent to Sir Joseph Banks for my Father and Mother."
I have therefore enclosed you a Bill for the amount of what his effects sold for (Thirty eight pounds six shillings) it is drawn by Captain Nepean on Messrs Cox and Greenwood, and I suppose something may be due from the Treasury, which the parents will of course receive.
When Burton met with the accident, he told those who were with him, that he had made some drawings which he wished should be sent to his Brother who lived with Earl Howe, they are very trifling but I trouble you with them in compliance with the poor fellow's wish. In this man I lost one whom I cannot replace, and whom I could ill spare; my saying which may enable you to judge of the people I have around me to form a colony, and provide for the support of the more than three thousand people.
I hope that you enjoy health and am, with great esteem,
My dear Sir,
Your obliged friend & Humble Servant.
A Phillip