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The Right Honble
Sir Joseph Banks Bart.
Sir,
Yesterday was a day of festivity to me, I had the honor [honour] to receive your unexpressibly kind letter of the 8th April for which I hasten to offer you my most grateful and fervent thanks. I assure you that I shall as long as life lasts endeavour to deserve the favourable and flattering opinion you have been pleased to express of me and of my labours at this garden; and that to realise if possible even to anticipate, every individual wish concerning you which you, Sir, may entertain, shall always constitute my chiefest happiness.
Enclosed I beg you permission to present you with a list of the growing plants and seeds which since my return to the garden, in August last year, have been sent away from this country by me; the aggregate number exceed by far that of any former year, so has the intrinsic value of the articles. It may serve as an index of all the opportunities of which I have availed myself; and nothing would so much gratify me, as being in time informed of such of these as have appeared successful, at least such as could be recommended for being in future entrusted again with similar dispatches. Not seldom second hand complaints have come to me, of my not specifically acknowledging on the return to this country of such or such a captain or commander, the particular attention which he may claim the merit of having bestowed on the articles committed to