Letter received by Banks from Philip Gidley King, 25 November 1794 (Series 39.013) - No. 0001

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N.I. Novr 25th 1794

Dear Sir

I am just favoured with yours of June 23rd 1793 - I have already expressed my Obligations to you for being [interested?] & much respecting My Journal - I am more indebted to you & Mr Stephens this I can well express - as it was absolutely necessary that it should appear to contradict such wanton assertions, which are totally unfounded. Accept my Thanks Sir, & Thanks to Men of Noble Mind is honourable indeed I am much concerned for the loss you sustained in the Atlantic [ship] &, still more so for the pines, I have sent a Number of others & the first direct Opportunity that Offers of sending any thing of that kind home, You may be assured of a Collection, but things may lay a long time off Pt Jackson without any Opportunity of their being forwarded The Consequence of which would be the same as with the pines you have now received -
Grass seeds will be very acceptable. 

July 7 1795 June 6. 96