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20 July 1875.
Parliament Houses
Melbourne

My dear Sir William Macarthur

I know not whether it annoys
you to be troubled with letters from
a distance, and from those whom
you have seen nothing of for a long
time, but as I write to ask for a
little information which I think
you can give me, I hope you will
excuse me. Some of my friends
in England complaining that there
was no decent history of Australia
insisted that I ought to write one,
and I have with some diffidence
commenced the task.

There are many works already
and I have access here to most of
them. Langs [sic] works are all mere
repetition of his own old libels whenever
he can introduce subjects which he