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if there not be a change at Berrima I think very seriously of withdrawing my name  -  but I shall not do [it] hastily - I should be sorry to do it both for the Bishop's sake & the Registrar Generals
                                                                          JH
Has May [?] left Berrima - when you write let me know [indecipherable] to them  -  also to [indecipherlable]

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                          Gilmoran [?] near Goulburn
                                                  28th April 1857

My dear Mr Hassall,

Your very kind letter reached me this morning and I cannot but a demise[?] the just appreciation you have formed of our feelings respecting our dear aged Mother's decease  -  The mere circumstance of her infirmity requiring our constant attendance, did, indeed, endear her [like an infant to its mother], all the more to her family and caused the void of her loss to be wider, and more
 

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