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Parramatta Nov 13th [indecipherable]
My dear Madam -
It is with pleasure I take up my pen to acknowledge the
receipt of your two last letters, & the parcel received by the Atlas; for which,
I return you my sincere thanks; the things were exceedingly useful, but consider them as the strongest proof I am not forgot by so good a woman.
I rejoice that Mr & Mrs Johnston reached England in safety & had a happy
meeting with their friends - am glad to find from Mrs Kent that Mrs John-
son has recovered his health so well, & trust before this, they are settled
comfortably & to their wishes. I daily regret the loss of Mrs Johnson's society from this country; so much so, that I have not visited Sydney cut once since
she left it; & that was to wean my little girl Elizbaeth. Our society of married
ladies increases we have now twenty. There never were so many at a time
since the Colony was established. I wish I could say we increased in divine
things but we still continue in the same depraved state as ever. You
who have in many privileges can have no idea of our situation.

You have no doubt heard what an affliction we have been visited with in the
melancholy death of one dear little boy - We were going to the farm - a
servant was driving him & me in a single horse chaise. Mr Marsden was
on horseback; when a man twenty yards from our own house carelessly run
a wheelbarrow directly under the wheel of the chaise, & overturned it; & my
dear child never stirred more. (I received no hurt myself tho I was but two
months of my time.) I am conscious this was a happy translation, yet dear
Madam picture to yourself my feelings: to have him in health & spirits, & the next
moment to behold him in the [indecipherable] arms of death - I was wonderfully supported &
one consolation which as the world cannot give neither take away. He who is faithful has promised, when thou [indecipherable] thro the waters I will be with thee, & thro
the [indecipherable] they shall not overflow thee. God is a refuge & strength, a very present help

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