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[Page 56]

you enclose - they make one au fait as to your acquaintances, & I hope you will some day be able to see John Marjoriebanks at his own home.

I am expecting James at home today -  & I hope he will have written to you from Sydney - for the mail closes tomorrow, & the announcement only reached us yesterday -  James has not been at home the past week. He has been helping [indecipherable] in a terrible trouble he has got into - no less than finding himself in the condemned cell 

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it will answer well but we have scarcely tried it as yet. Do you know the principle?
The girls were charmed with the Cases of scissors. They seem to think them too pretty to use - so you will not be called upon to supply again in a hurry.
our best love dear William

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