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" to avoid errors, and I trust you will
" accept my assurance that the comment
" I made was not in any way prompted by
" a fault finding feeling. No one who
" is familiar with your valuable & accurate
" History could for a moment doubt the
" marvellous care and labour it involved,
" and the desire for absolute accuracy and
" impartiality which every line breathes.
" In the opinion of every competent judge
" of my acquaintance it is the only
" reliable and by far the most valuable
" and complete History of Australia we possess"

So you see I have a soothing
plaster for my scratch.

I must write an acknowledgement
when, or if, I can, for I am now
laid up under medical orders
and have not much disposition
or ability to write at all.

Please forgive my maundering
to you in this manner. If I could
but have the health to enable
me to revisit dear old Camden
I would hunt up the "Divine" matter
in Johnston's Trials and other MSS,