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Molles Main, near Campbell Town,
July 31. 1846

Sir,
The kindness you have always hitherto evinced in complying
with any little request I may have troubled you with, will in this instance I hope
plead my excuse, for again trespassing upon your kindness.

I have long known that unless under very favorable circumstances
farming will not pay in New. S. Wales, and when you have rent and labor to pay for
unfavorable seasons come doubly hard upon those who are subject to it. -- I should [...]
when I left the Wollombi have taken to farming again, but for the purpose of providing
a home for those who were dependant upon me, and as at the expiration of this year
it is my intention to sublet the estate I now hold, reserving the house, and about 200 acres
of land for my Father and Mother to live in, I have no doubt it will be more beneficial
to me than if I continued farming. -- In the mean time I purpose being on the lookout
for a situation for myself, and I have no doubt with the friends I have, and the recom-
mendations I can procure I shall be able to get something to do, that will be less preca-
rious, than a dependance upon our uncertain climate

My object in now troubling you, is to beg of you to be kind enough to
forward me a certificate of character, and respectability during the time you have known me
for which I shall feel very grateful, and consider myself your debtor, and should Providence
ever put it in my power to serve you or yours, I shall always feel it a pleasure as well as a
duty to do so.

I have the honor to be Sir your most obedient servant

James Smith