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 Banksia Double Bay Sydney

 

Banksia Double Bay

Sydney

My dear Sir

I wrote you form Adelaide a short time ago saying I would send you copies of some letters I have had the pleasure of receiving from your excellent father, my dear old friend. I now send you one of the originals is pasted into a copy of the Tenth Thousand of your of the Journal of Researches the tone of the letter shews strongly the amiable character of his mind of which I have a happy appreciation having been his cabin mate by day at our [survey] work, he at his microscope, I making charts, and having accompanied him in many of his excursions— especially one of them, an ascent of a hill as given in his volume "Voyages of Adventure and Beagle", wherein our expedition to Castro and the sea coast of the island of Chiloe is amusingly recorded—

If you think Mr Darwin's letter to me is worth including in his biography I shall be exceedingly pleased—

I left the "Beagle" when she put in at Sydney [illeg] homeward voyage. Since then I have been taken up with shore going pursuits and I am now a Member of the Legislature Council in the colony in which my grandfather was the third governor. With apologies for this personal allusion.

I remain my dear sir

Very sincerely yours

Philip Gidley King