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28 Jan^y 1876
Parliament Houses
Melbourne.

[centred stamp, showing a stag on a castle's battlements] NULLA PALLESCERE CULPA

My dear Sir William

I thought it merely possible
that I might run over to Sydney
in the vacation, and your old friend
William Campbell half promised to go
too if the session permitted. But our
session has not permitted. There was
only an interval of a few days at Christmas,
and now the work drags slowly
along as you may perhaps have observed
in the newspapers. My trip to
Camden is thus put off, but not I
hope to the Greek Calends.

I hope you are all well there and
must ask you to make my kind
regards to all friends.

I have availed myself of the