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you enclose — they make
one au fait as to your
acquaintances — & I hope
you will some day be
able to see John Marjoribanks
at his own home.

I am expecting James at
home today —  & I hope he
will have written to you
from Sydney — for the
mail closes tomorrow,
& the announcement only
reached us yesterday — 
James has not been at
home the past week.
He has been helping
Lakeman in a terrible
trouble he has got into —
no less than finding himself
in the condemned cell 
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it will answer well but we have
scarcely tried it as yet. Do you
know the principle?

The girls were charmed with the
Cases of scissors — they seem to
think them too pretty to use — so
you will not be called upon
to supply again in a hurry —

Our best love dear William
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