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Dear Sir
Notwithstanding you have been arrived some time I hope it is not too late to offer my congratulations on the occasion which be assured I do in the most sincere manner, and at the same time must mention how much I think you deserve the thanks of members in general for so great an undertaking, believe me I often feard you might have labourd under some difficulties from not having another ship in Company and indeed as often wished to have been on these discoveries with you, such is my disposition, and being informd by the publick papers, that you propose taking a second Voyage; permit me to say I should think my self highly honourd to be appo inted to the Command of the Ship in which you may go, And as Lord Sandwich has been pleased to take some notice of me from the disapointment I met with by not being promoted by Sr Edd Hawke I flatter my self