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Mother. The Will, which was formally prepared by a Solicitor, and bears date, the 10th Jany 1844, appears to be not only a properly but a most necessary document. X Your Mother not having received for very many years, any portion of the Annuity bequeathed to her in your Father's Will, her formal relinquishment of all the arrears, was essential, I appreciated, to free the incumbent properties, from the probability, after her death, of any claims being preferred to them. X The Memorandums which were left in your dear Mother's own hand, all of prior date to the Will, and therefore. as formal documents, as a matter of course, are extinguished by it. In fact they are substantially groundwork on which it was framed. X There is one fact of them however, which I must particularly remark upon, relating to the disposition of the Plate, Books, etc, at Parramatta. I pointed out to James (though he did not agree with me) that by the terms of your Mother's Will, as far as I could recollect, at the death of your Mother, these things were absolutely bequeathed to yourself. X Emmeline, who has all along known that they were to belong to you as the Head of the family, says she cannot possibly understand how such a mistake could have arisen, and certain she is, that it was made by her beloved Mother, altogether in ignorance of what your Father intended. The remaining points, are minor ones, which it is needless to notice, though there are many obvious inaccuracies which have most probably arisen from the papers having been written so many years back.  
Believe me
H.W.P.

 

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