File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 691-1800, 1855-1874: No. 053
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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