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Lot 185: Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820), botanist and naturalist

Est: £300 GBP - £400 GBPSold:
Lyon & TurnbullEdinburgh, United KingdomJanuary 10, 2007

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Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820), botanist and naturalist
Three page A.L.S., "My Dear Dr.

Like other persons who fancy they have much to do, as the Fly on the wheel fancies that it raises a great dust, I have not been able to Finish my letters for China & India till you had Finished all your preparations & Lord Cornwallis put in order all his Lordship''s immense concerns, I am indeed ashamed of myself.
With this you will receive the papers I mentioned to you, the two are copies of proceedings in the P. Council for Trade you will not therefore allow any improper use to be made of them, I mean in publication. Nothing in them has any view to secrecy indeed both were sent to the E. India Company & have most likely been forwarded to the Governor General for the time being.
I cannot help hoping that the mention made of my countrymen the Hemp growers has procured them employment if not I commit their care to you & to old Ld. Cornwallis''s friendship & Shall be under no small Obligations if you are So good as to put them into the way of becoming usefull to themselves & to their employers.
I have Troubled you with some letters too late for the Post. Excuse the liberty allow me to wish you & your noble Patrons all success that the sea and the Lord can afford you & I can not hope for your having more good fortune than the interesting & amiable undertaking which has ordered my old schoolfellow at this time of life to Abandon again his Family & his Comforts Clearly deserves of all things however I beseech Both of you to think of nothing with so much pleasure during the whole time of your Absence as the Return to your country & Friends who be Assured will look forward with a pleasing hope to that not far distant event.
Believe me my dear sir with sincere esteem & regard you most faithful Hble Servt, J. Banks", Soho Square, 13 April 1805

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Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photogra

by
Lyon & Turnbull
January 10, 2007, 11:00 AM EST

33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EBH, EH1 3RR, UK