State Library of NSW
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It was announcedthe Captain has seenwe may expect to seeit does come within mybe my first sight of thisthat bordering the Eastern side ofof Bab-el-Manded [Bab-el-Mandeb] came to viewprevious journey to Europe in 1878.
Please give to Maria Watt and my [other] friends my best wishes and kindest regards. A small souvenir from the Christmas cake is enclosed for Maria, tell her to please weave as many anecdotes around it as there are particles of sugar upon or as may be suggested by the site from which it came.
For you my dears God bless you. With heaps of love and loads of kisses for Each.I remainYour loving & affect. Faree
John B. Nash
The Misses Nash219 Macquarie StreetSydneyN.S. Wales
CarrieKittyJoseph[Each name followed by rows of Xs and Os.]
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