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exchange was for £18.10 and not £18.17.6 as appears
in your account. Taking then the other items as
you enumerate them I strike the balance thus. 

                          £  s  d                                                       £   s  d
1850.Rent  . .  .25  0   0       1850    Paid to govern.t         35 17  0  
1851. Do .  .  .  25  0   0        1852   Do.  .  .  .  .  .  .           30   0  0
1852. Do .  .  .   25  0  0                    Do .  .  .  .  .  .  .            2  0  0
1853. Do .  .  .  .25  0  0        1853    Last Rent Rec'd         16  6  8  
1854, Do .  .  .  .25  0  0                                                       84  3  8          
         ½ less Do  12 10  0                
                          137 10  0
                            84.  3  8                                           
                        2 /53.  6. 4            
                         26.13. 2  = My share of profit                                                               
                          18 10  0   per bill of exchange                     
                             8   3  2  = Balance due to (?)

Thus much for business. As for domestic matters I
am happy to say we are all both well. My wife and
oldest little girl have been staying with some friends
in France, whence I have recently returned with the           
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rear guard of the expedition. We now muster six in family having added to our original numbers two little boys[..] Thomas & Francis and two little girls Isabelle and Adelaide. I suppose you keep the primitive commandment as well as we. Probably you have at length terminated your migratory state of existence as described in your last letter, and I hope you are comfortably settled at Berrima. This   and your quick  are so dissimilar however that you and i can scarcely appreciate each others labours or difficulties. Altho' we are all apt to be discontented with our own lot,    for   of life to probably should be it adapted to any other. Pray give him Grace's best love to his sister and do not forget to remember m .. kindly. i will not inflict on you any more .. bout .. myself. Dear Sir,
Rev.  Hassall, Yours faithfully Thos. Gross

 

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