State Library of NSW
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London 10 July 1831
My dear William
I would not omit the opportunity of the ship w.h takes out Gen.l Bourke of writing to you a few lines & of saying that I would have answered a very delightful letter I rec.d from your oldest sister & Emmeline by the Mary J. Recently, but dated last Decemb.r but under the idea of the recent distressing accounts you w.d have but shortly rec.d before this arrives, I could not write as I otherwise
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