[in cross writing on the front page]

Postscript. I have requested Sir Joseph Banks to give thee all the information he can from France, and his
opinion upon the propriety of undertaking the voyage here. If he writes thee nothing in two or three
weeks after the receival [sic] of this thou canst write to him on these subjects.
I have written to captain Henry of the nineteenth dragoons concerning James Franklin.
                  My best beloved adieu, for a short time.