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Parramatta Australia
January 7th 1832

My dearest Bother
The vessel by which our letters are to be
forwarded is to sail on Sunday without fail, and yet
this is Saturday and I have not written a line. So much
for the sad habit of procrastination in which I am so
apt to indulge without reflecting that the morrow to
which I look forward may never arrive - or that
if it does some new obstacle may arise of more
importance than the first and thus, day after day,
month after month passes away such my beloved
Brother justly imagines that I am either indifferent
to his love or careless of the opinion my silence may
lead him to form of me. This shall not be the
case now and I will rather incur the [indecipherable]
of sending a very stupid letter than that of not
writing at all. Your letters dearest Edward have
all arrived in perfect safely together with the paper
and pencils for which you may accept my affectionate 
thanks. I am sorry to say I have have not made much 

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now have time [as?] [indecipherable] ][packets] must be in Sydney by tomorrow evening. I cannot help fancying that
some of my letters to you must have [miscarried?] 
for I perfectly remember telling [indecipherable] that we
had [all?] [written?] the Lady Brisbane by the Post
& I sent you at the same time a large packet of [indecipherable] [indecipherable] seeds from the Botanical garden neither of which you appear to have received?
I am much mortified that we are unable 
to send you any [indecipherable] [indecipherable] by this ship I have tried [desperately?] for the last two years
to procure them
[but?] this [indecipherable] of my [indecipherable]
appear to have
[entirely?]  [distroyed?] them about [our?] [indecipherable] own [Wood?]

 

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