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

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MS 688-Letter from Sir Phillip Stephens to Captain James Cook, 1776 July 20 [manuscript]./Item 1
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Ferren  

Aamty Office 25. July 1776.  

Jin  

Doctor Forster having with  

his letter of the 2. Instant, trans.  

-mitted to my Lords Commissio  

ners of the Cedmir ally Specimens  

of the New Zealand Stemp or Flax  

prepared here by Foreign Lady  

degrust  

to fine ness and whiteness which  

could be little expected; Jam  

commanded by their Lords hips  

to send you herewith Copy  

of the Doctor’s said Letter with  

the specimens abovementioned  

for your information, and to  

recommend it to you to bring  

from New Zealand, if you  

should touch there in the course  

of your present intended Voyage  

quantity of the seeds, and is  

practicable some of the Plants  

of the beforementioned Stemp  

or Plase, that farther experiments  

may be made of it. Jam,  

Sir,  

Joun very humbleservant.  

Phthepsiess  

Saptain  

book, Resolution stook  

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