State Library of NSW
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March 14
Pendell Court Bletchingley, Surrey
My dear Friend
At last! At last! A box of Orchids has reached you in fair & more than fair condition from this place! I sent for Green immediately after reading the most welcome announcement & it would have done you good to see the effect of the good news had upon the good mans face. I can only trust the case per Whampoa maybe in equally good order. I am glad to see that Veitch came at last to his senses & that he has treated you tolerably well since you would not expect from a man who is well known to be exigent in all his
The Honble Sir William Macarthur
[In left margin] if I were you & wd write direct to the [indecipherable] named Mr. Dyer and with what I wanted from him telling him what I had to send in return. I need not say that I shall be much very much obliged to you for all you were good enough to promise to send. My [indecipherable] above ground nicely [indecipherable]. I [indecipherable] Camden
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