Letter received by Banks from Arthur Phillip, 17 November 1791 (Series 37.18) - No. 0004

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left kidney. It is no longer in my power to go about as I have done, & I hope the request I made when Hunter left us, will be granted, in London I may get some relief. So it is with the sick, we have nearly the whole world between us, and I am telling you my complaints, let us return to the Colony. Our Crops of last year suffer greatly from the dry weather, & those now in the ground have suffered likewise. Of 44 acres of wheat only thirty are tolerable, 6 acres of barley very indifferent & of 351 of Maize, seventy or eighty will be lost, the rest promises pretty well. Our Settlers have also suffered from the dry weather & the grub, which has disheartened some of them, but I think they will do.

Should Lord Grenville or