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When you came here I undertook to supply you with money in such cases as your wages should fall short had I known that you spent them in Paper for Drying Plants I should most willingly have supplied you for no pursuit could be more laudable in you than the Collection of an herbarium.
in testimony then that I am not in any degree displeased angry with you & that however I may estimate your abilities I value your enthusiasm I will pay the debts you have contracted to Dickson or any others you may owe here & if ten pounds will be of use to you I will send it down to you as soon as I hear from you.
you cannot however go out in the ship now under dispatch it has been sometime settled that no person shall be sent this time from Kew. The two persons who are on board as Gardeners are both Settlers who do not come back and all is now arranged so that no alteration can be made.
I will not forget however your claim to be sent out in the first opportunity that shall offer which I think will suit you & am in hopes that within a year such an opportunity will present itself & that I shall be able to get you out. I cannot promise because of the uncertainty of the times but I think it probable you may not wait so long
Mr. Caley
Sept 4 — 98
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The [indecipherable]
Sir Joseph Banks Bart.
Soho Square
London