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from New South Wales, but I do hope that the worst is over, and that brighter days are in store for the Colony. I have learnt with much gratification the pleasing accounts of your dear Mother, Wife & Daughter, and from my heart do I wish I could revisit the Cow Pastures and taste Williams Wine on the spot of its Growth, where your late revered Father and I first bivouacked in Sept. 1805, now nearly 40 years ago. –
St. James's St. 31 Oct. 1844.
My dear MacArthur,
The "Genl. Hewitt" that conveyed the Box No. 2, sailed on the 24th from Portsmouth – and since that day I have no intelligence from Carrick or Shannon, so that I conclude Edward does not intend to send any letters by this Mail Packet.
I do trust that the results of the late
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