State Library of NSW
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Pendell Court Feby 18th
My dear Friend
I am in receipt of your hand written letter of the 24th of December, written on the very day on which the St. Osyth arrived I believe in Melbourne. I heartily wish tho this were [indecipherable] that she had got in a week before, that I might have heard something of the state of the Leys envoi of Orchids, for I now find upon referencing your letter & lists that I cannot [indecipherable] missing lessened selection until I hear from you the present result of his mode of packing
The Honble. Sir William Macarthur M.L.C.
[In left margin] to [indecipherable] give them all my best love. I have the Stirlings stopping with me. I had Erskine & [indecipherable] to meet them here last month & we had no rest of [indecipherable].
Frm yr affly
Geo: Macleay
[indecipheraboe] has another Boy.
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