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Though I am not sure that my letter
will reach you at Camden I write
thither. The Ogilvies send you all
their kindest regards. We have
here now a sun as warm but not so
genial as that of Australia. Tell
Philip King that D. & I hope to see them
all in Sydney next year. If the
doctor forbids England to me, my
raison d'etre there is destroyed, and I
must flit to the South. What you
say about the young men in Austa. &
the whisky puzzles me. I had thought
that among the young men at Oxd & Came [Oxford & Cambridge]
they were much more prone
to that folly than their compeers in
Australia. But here as there
I recognise that there is much less
dissipation than there was when I was
young. In both places any young
man who chooses to be temperate can
be so without difficulty & this was
not always the case. There are
terrible young scamps without
doubt here, & the same tendencies