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Sydney April 1801
Dear Sir
I received your obliging letter of the 7th last August, and am highly gratified to hear of your good state of health, and much obliged by your kind remembrance. By the Buffalo and two other conveyances I wrote you all which I hope have reached you, They will inform you of my arrival here: and of Gov. Hunters departure six Months after my arrival; Since when I have been involved in a mass of difficulty, opposition, and every discouragement to get matters at all out of the confusion in which they have been so involved - and if I have not completed every thing expected, I hope I have begun to work after a new foundation - New I say - because every thing was to be changed - and you will have no difficulty in forming an Idea how disagreeable the measure was to all whose interest was so closely attached. I should enter into a minute detail, but that I hope you will hear that from other quarters, & that you hear & will see my dispatches, but I shall not presume to give any general account of the Colony until I have been a year in Command, & that the Yearly accounts are made up, when I shall [run the risque?] of referring
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