The Right Honourable Henry Dundas, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State.

Hearing that superintendants of the agriculture at Botany Bay were needed, and having had a good deal of experience in various parts of S. and N. Britain, I offer myself for that service, if in other respects it can be made agreeable; if the State needs such a servant, one of your Secretaries or Clerks may find me at Burford, Oxfordshire, where any letter directed to me by name will find me.