Letter [manuscript]. 1776 July 20.

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Letter [manuscript]. 1776 July 20.

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Letter written from the Admiralty Office to Captain Cook, Resolution Sloop, informing him that Doctor Forster had submitted specimens of New Zealand flax "prepared by a Foreign Lady to a degree of fineness and whiteness which could be little expected" and requesting him to bring from New Zealand, if he should touch there, a quantity of the seeds. Also includes a list of Forster letters held in the Mitchell Library.

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