State Library of NSW
Parramatta June 2nd 1832 my birth-night - at 9 oC [o'clock] I shall be 24 yrs of age My beloved Brother
I have so little of an agreeable nature to communicate from hence that I can scarcely prevail on myself to address you but I [indecipherable] to know from experience that a line from those we love is worth a multitude of messages however affectionately they may be expressed and feeling assured that you will attribute my dullness with right cause I will no longer hesitate to contribute my [write?] [towards?] the large [indecipherable] of which Dr [Cooper? Coate?] is to have charge. From this gentleman you will learn how we all are and I believe he is [always?] [called?] by James to inform you of some facts which willl in part account for a [indecipherable] which I am aware must have pervaded many of our late letters
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Return I know not as the apartment he has been accustomed [heavily?] as a bed room is now rewarded with a “Library” for the reception of State leaders - the little rooms which have appropriated [Henry?] [Bellamy?] are now awarded with a [bedroom] dressing room [for?] my father & into them we are not permitted to enter – Male attendants are alive to be depended upon & if an [unfashionable?] [petticoat?] is by any chance too near the doors of the said bed room - dressing room - as Library “an old flannel waistcoat a worsted stocking as [some?] equally valuable [article?] of wearing apparel is immediately reported to be “stolen” but these are trifles & [indecipherable] not to be noticed unless as part of the system of [?] which he has [?] for
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