Volume 63: Lady Parker and Sir H. Watson Parker papers, 1829-1889: No. 016

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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

Crosshatch lines:

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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