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Parramatta Australia January 7th 1832
My dearest Bother The vessel by which our letters are to be forwarded is to sail on Sunday without fail, and yet this is Saturday and I have not written a line. So much for the sad habit of procrastination in which I am so apt to indulge without reflecting that the morrow to which I look forward may never arrive - or that if it does some new obstacle may arise of more importance than the first and thus, day after day, month after month passes away such my beloved Brother justly imagines that I am either indifferent to his love or careless of the opinion my silence may lead him to form of me. This shall not be the case now and I will rather incur the [indecipherable] of sending a very stupid letter than that of not writing at all. Your letters dearest Edward have all arrived in perfect safely together with the paper and pencils for which you may accept my affectionate thanks. I am sorry to say I have have not made much
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now have time [as?] [indecipherable] ][packets] must be in Sydney by tomorrow evening. I cannot help fancying that some of my letters to you must have [miscarried?] for I perfectly remember telling [indecipherable] that we had [all?] [written?] the Lady Brisbane by the Post & I sent you at the same time a large packet of [indecipherable] [indecipherable] seeds from the Botanical garden neither of which you appear to have received? I am much mortified that we are unable to send you any [indecipherable] [indecipherable] by this ship I have tried [desperately?] for the last two years to procure them [but?] this [indecipherable] of my [indecipherable] appear to have [entirely?] [distroyed?] them about [our?] [indecipherable] own [Wood?]
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