Banks (Joseph) Autograph letter signed ('Jos Banks'), to an unknown recipient, reading "My dear Sir, accept my best thanks for your very obliging note. I have on the Receipt of it given immediate notice to Mr. MacLean, E. India Inspector who Superintends my Customs House business, to make the necessary inquiries & to do the Needful whatever it may be", one page, small loss to upper left corner, folding marks, age-related toning, tipped onto later backing sheet, pencil annotation, small 8vo, Soho Square, 19 August 1814. ***Rare autograph letter by the great naturalist Joseph Banks regarding the clearance of a consignment for Banks by the Customs House in London. The note almost certainly concerns Bank's importation of exotic botanical specimens, regularly sent to him by one of his numerous correspondents in Australia, the East Indies, South America, India or Africa.