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We are always glad to know
your plans even though
they are not carried out.
In answer to your questions
It is Lizzie [Soyer's?] friend
who is [dead?]. When I can
find the correct Sums
he has left I will tell you
They say £500 to Mr [Saliviere?]
£500 to Asylum We know
nothing of Mrs [Newley?]
We have heard again
from George he had
rheumatism & did not say
any thing of coming down
but was on the Lachlan
We are all well now,
except Fred, who will not
be really strong for [indecipherable]
the Doctors Say.

John & [indecipherable] are always
fighting, The Mill gets on
slowly it is near the [indecipherable]
now - Harriet is dreadfully
hard up for money & has
had to borrow to get on at all,
this poverty is very wearying
all suffer more or less
in the house hold in little
ways
Now for my self Fred &
Marian Hope (Kate's daughter)
Arthur & [indecipherable] all came
from Melbourne together
last week we had a
quiet passage & were not
very sick - Mamma we
found quite well and
so I did not regret having
left her for a time

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only nineteen miles in a straight line across from the Basin to Ipswich,
but of course a person, could not travel that way. Some
years ago I heard of people going from Samford to Cabbage tree Station which is
only twelve miles from Ipswich and I daresay you could ascertain if there is
a track there.
It would be well in you to write me before hand, so that I might let the people
know when you would probably be here.
I should be happy to ride over to Mount Brisbane with you, we could have a
pleasant chat
going along the [indecipherable]. I do not at present know of anything likely to
take me to Ipswich but if I should have occasion to go there will of course find you out

Your Ponies have improved in condition and the fillies are heavy in foal. I
saw by the papers that Robert had returned and can well understand him
being glad to look out for a town billet again droving or overlanding is no
easy life. As you dont mention it I presume your family have not suffered from
the measles I had there, in June, but yet well over them and now feel

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