Volume 62: Walter Stevenson Davidson papers, 1815-1846: No. 118

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parties who are either concerned or mentioned in it, as well as to recapitulate some of the leading and prominent facts of the Case.
"Mr. Leslie, Senior, of Warthill, Aberdeenshire, the Father of Mr. William Leslie, and Mr. Patrick Leslie.
"Mr. William Leslie of Canton, now of this Country.
"Mr. Patrick Leslie, my late Agent in New South Wales.
"Mr. S.A. Donaldson, formerly of the firm of Jones & Co. of Sydney, now of Donaldson, Dawes, and Co., who was in London when I last heard of him.
"Mr. Richard Jones of Sydney, my old friend and approved Agent, who managed the 'Joint Flocks' from September 1823, to August 1837.
"Mr. James Macarthur, the gentleman who, in conjunction with Mr. Jones, arranged the transfer of the Flocks to Mr. Edward Hamilton in 1840.
"Mr. H. H. Macarthur, the Father-in-law of Mr. Patrick Leslie.
"Mr. Edward Hamilton, who in August 1839, bought my property in conjunction with Mr. George Clive, and went out to manage it.
"Messrs. Glennie & White, the Valuers; - the formed appointed by Messrs. Jones and Macarthur on my part; and the latter by Mr. Edward Hamilton, on the part of Mr. George Clive and and himself.
"Mr. J. E. Walters, of Lincoln's Inn, my legal adviser in England.
"Mr. R. Lambert, of John Street, Bedford Row, legal adviser of Mr. S. A. Donaldson and Mr. Patrick Leslie.
"Mr. Donald Sen., formerly of the firm of Donaldson and Lambert, London; by whom whom my wool consignments were managed from the commencement.  Mr. Donaldson Sen. is the Father of Mr. S. A. Donaldson.
"Although Mr. Patrick Leslie did not receive full charge until the final partition of the 'Joint Flocks' in August 1837, he took to himself of the Lambs, from the preceding March lambing inclusive, and appealed to me to be allowed them on 27th December, 1837
(page 23.) 
"I answered this letter on the 11th June 1838 (page 39,) and took the precaution of sending it through Colonel Macarthur, who ascertained that it reached its destination early in November 1838.  Mr. Partick Leslie never would directly acknowledge this letter, but he did so inadvertently, on the 15th March, 1839 (page 51.)
"Notwithstanding this peremptory letter, however, as well as that of his Father, at page 56,
Mr. Patrick Leslie to this moment has never stated the restoration of a single Lamb of the many hundreds over and over again acknowledged by himself to have been abstracted from my Flocks.
"Mr. Patrick Leslie penned his eventual Resignation on the 15th March 1839, and in the following month he wrote, - 'I do not mean to reside at Carleroy for good any more, but go there now and then; and I am determined to look out for my own Runs and Stock.'
" I received the letter of Resignation on 22nd July 1839, sold the property to Mr. George Clive and Mr. Edward Hamilton in August: the latter left London the 30th September to take possession, and reached Sydney on the 24th February 1840.  On the 25th, Mr. Jones wrote to congratulate me on the Sale, adding, 'Mr. Hamilton could not arrive at a better time to see your property