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Parramatta, December 3rd, /96

Dear Madam,

Although I wrote to you lately, I embrace the earliest oppor-
tunity to inform you I have received your letter by the Sylph and also Mrs
Mrs Marsden one. We feel ourselves greatly indebted to you for your kind
remembrance of us in this distant part. News from Old England, come from
whom it will may, is welcome, and much more if it comes from a love of Jesus.
We have many things to struggle with here, which have a natural tendency
to deaden our affections and stupify our hearts. Happy should I be to see
God reviving his work of grace in New South Wales. Our Land brings
forth plentifully, neither doth he suffer our cattle to decrease. The bounties of
Providence are bestowed upon us with a liberal hand; no poverty or want is
experienced by any: we have plenty of bread to spare; notwithstanding
we are very ungrateful; we are unmindful of the God who gives us all things
richly to enjoy. It is an unspeakable happiness to see the kind hand of
Providence superintending all our ways. He both can and does make the
barren wilderness to smile. His goodness and mercy have followed me all
the days of my life, and I humbly hope, dear Madam, to dwell in His house
forever. I am so greatly blessed, that were I to murmur or complain
against any of His dispensations towards me, it would almost be an unpar-
donable sin. You mention in your letter, you would be glad if I would