Item 02: Letters sent by Robert Wilson to his family, 1905-1915 - Page 148

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"Lyttleton"
Orlando Av,
Mosman
April 5th 1910 [Tuesday]

My dear Mother
I had a good trip down, when I went to change my ticket at Mudgee the station master said I would have to pay five shillings and we argued for a long time and I was wondering what I had better do when the guard came up and said in his big voice "He goes a quarter fare" and the station master said "O" and then told me it would be two and nine pense  I came down with Miss Meares again. At Wallerawang a boy of seventeen got in who was a relation to the Hungerfords and although there were only five in the carriage counting himself he sat close up to me and smoked a sigerret and made himself altogether nasty. Aunt Katie would like the quinces. I looked up the train book, you can have 60 lbs delivered at the door for two and three pense.  I am very tired to day & Aunt Katie does not think I had better go tomorrow morning but I will try and go. Aunt Katie got a telegram today from Uncle Walter he is leaving on the 16th and will sail all the way here which will take about 1 weak. I suppose you will come down to see him or he will go to see you. I showed those stones to Uncle George but the [there] is nothing in them, he says that he is sure that there is gold in the Lease but it would be very hard to find and best way would be to look carefully