State Library of NSW
[Page 429]
[In pencil] 1876
August 5th
My dear Arthur
Let me congratulate you as I do most heartily upon dear Elizabeth getting so well over her trouble. There is a new life before her now I do believe. [indecipherable] if be as happy & pleasant as the commencement of your married days! I have not seen anything lately of [indecipherable] Loggi [?] but [indecipherable] was stopping with me but long ago [indecipherable]
Captain Onslow R.N.
[Cross-hatched writing]
[indecipherable] populated Orleans. The Hattons are [indecipherable] to go for [indecipherable]. The next three or 4 days will I trust pay as accounts of their [indecipherable][ defeats, and then the campaign for this season is over. Certain to be [indecipherable] one wd say, but [indecipherable] is the political and [indecipherable] of the Empire that it is very doubtful whether the attempt to drive the [indecipherable] out of Europe can be continued.
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