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Joseph Banks's Journal
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It was in vain I expected Joseph Banks would keep his word with me. On the 20th of March, 1772, he sent me back, indeed, my drawers and boxes quite empty, without the civility even of a message by the bearers. I complained, of course, to Dr. Fothergill, who afterwards said he could obtain no satisfaction for me. After several fruitless attempts to obtain it myself, therefore, I wrote to Joseph Banks, acquainting him, that, if he did not immediately return the curiosities, I would inform the world of the whole transaction between us, and endeavour to indemnify myself by publishing also my brother’s journal.* To this letter I received the following answer.
I shall in the present, as well as at all times, refer the dispute between us to Dr. Fothergill’s determination: not that I feel conscious of having done any thing amiss, but that I feel loth to endure your scurrilous letters, such as I shall shew him upon this occasion.
With this you receive the administration.
Notwithstanding this declaration of his willingness to refer our dispute to the decision of Dr. Fothergill, Joseph Banks took no step whatever toward an accommodation; nor did he ever shew Dr. Fothergill, as the latter informed me, any of those pretended scurrilous letters he mentions.
* Not that at this time I was furnished with sufficient materials to render it worthy of being laid before the public; having received no drawings or designs of any consequence whatever from Joseph Banks. On application, however, to feveral of the ship’s company, and by a fortunate accident, I recovered toon after other man manuscripts of my brother’s, together with those drawings which embellish the following sheets: not one of which did I receive from Joseph Banks.
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