State Library of NSW
[Page 192]
[In pencil - 1870]
Pendell Court, Bletchingley, Surrey. March 20th
My dear Macarthur
The correspondence has dropped somehow or other I am afraid though my fault. Somehow in writing to Elizabeth or Arlthur I got into the habit of feeling as if I am writing to the whole Family. Heaven knows
Sir William Macarthur &c &c &c
[Cross-hatch writing]
lately belonging to that poor fellow Hextor who was killed by Brigands at [indecipherable] near Taunton, and I daresay all the happier in the Country than in Town. He & his wife have been recovered the shock of their son Ronald's death. Peter is now pretty well again. He of course holds his life on a very precarious [indecipherable]. I have given up the rifle for the last 3 years as well as all my old tastes
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