Bellerophon {Plymouth}
                              Aug 7^th 1793

Dear Flinders

            I am favored with your very
acceptable letters from the Downs and I believe
all yours from the different places you wrote
me – I have by this days past likewise come
from St [illegible] Jamaica day May 22?
      I do not know what are your plans
now you are returned back to England.
I expect to sail in a day or two to
join my Lord Howe on board the
Bellerophon. I shall receive you with
pleasure – after so long an Absence
you will no doubt wish to see your