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warm in the hot weather, especially in such a summer as the last one seems to have been: I saw by the paper that apples have been actually roasted on the trees: if so I should think you might use the walls of your house for culinary purposes. What frightful fires they have had near Parramatta, and I was sorry to hear of the loss J. Oxley had sustained: I heard at the same time of the birth of his daughter, and wish it and them every happiness.
I owe Harriet a letter and Lizzie also, so must tell them with my love that I have not forgotten the debt, and will write as soon as I can find time.
Your new Bishop will have arrived before this reaches you; I think you are sure to like him: When Mr Allwood heard of Uncle Bobart's death the Bishop offered to come from Dover here and tell me the sad news, which he did in the kindest manner possible: I have seen him once since and had a long conversation with his Lordship in London. about my ordination in England &c. It has always been my wish to remain here for a year after ordination in order to settle down a little and digest what I have done before being placed on my own hands in Australia.

But no English Bishop will now ordain for any colony where there is a bishop. Dr. Barker however arranged for me that I shd. be ordained and wait in England till I had taken priests orders and then go out: it was settled therefore that I should take a curacy in England for a year or so if my health is good enough at the end of the year to allow of my remaining in England. My own plans, however, have been rather frustrated by a letter from my mother: She seems very unsettled and to wish either for me to return to her, or herself to come to England: the latter I think not at all advisable, principally on account of the expense and the climate. I cannot therefore give you any information respecting my own movements at present, except that I shall for certain have finished my college course at Xmas, and shall leave here then but what is to be done then I cannot determine till I hear from home.
As yet I am very well satisfied with my college work. I have now been more than two years, and can look back with pleasure upon them: as far as work is concerned I think I have got on well, especially in divinity and general knowledge. And I have much reason to be thankful for