Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 602
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marked contrasted to the brown surface of the surrounding soil. In Egypt there are no fences or other visible limiting marks between the various farms, but on these islands stone walls divide the whole into small fields, varying much in size yet to one from Australia of but scant acreage. The fathers & mothers of these people for many thousands of years have been born lived and died on these projections from the sea, & those of today probably pursue to space from their coming to their going hence much as did those who lived in the times of Homer, Hercules, Achilles, and the rest. Strange why they and we have come into being, and equally midst the unknown & the unknowable will be the manner of our leaving. Mysterious all! Very!!!
And now good night. Good Night. Good night.
Hoping that Fortune in here best of moods is with you still and will abide with each of you always. Please convey t my friends my best wishes. To Maria & my special friends a mead mede of love. Accept for each of you heaps of love & loads of kisses from
Your loving & affectionate Father
John. B. Nash
[A line of Xs with a line of Os underneath] Car. [A line of Xs with a line of Os underneath] Joe
[A line of Xs with a line of Os underneath] Kitty.
The Misses Nash
219 Macquarie St.
Sydney
N. S. Wales