FL14424732

[MS 489]

Parsonage [indecipherable]
Wednesday August 14th
1850 (underlined)
My dear James
Many thanks for your kind Epistle which duly reached
me by yesterday's post. It is dated July (underlined) of which rather
dazzles me, and the only condition I can come [by?]
either you have put ... for A... ot that the letter has
been detained for upwards of a month... Whether the...
expected me on Tuesday the ...th July or Tuesday the 6th of
August I cannot ...., but I ... account for my
next apprearances on both accounts. I had fully determined
a convoy to Bungonia via Gundaroo in July,
but was deterred by the winds [?]. I w..................
twice at that time, The first letter to appease [?] you if my
Children is it the second to postpone that visit not
I do not remember having stated that I was [?] should
come down ....in any particular month. ....
will be seen by the heading of this letter, I have secured
..., my home at Canbury. I left Dunbrow on the 1st
as the 4th (Sydney) was my day for Gundaroo ....
was ...........how things were [went?]
getting on & had put
Bungonia. I am very sorry therefore & have ....
.... you. I ... my way all about ..........
district, but is ... easily find my way. In[?] Goulburn
.. I fancy that the road to Bungonia
much fragmented ...rather intricate & I have had
enough of Bungonia [?] it, (1st of May....) ... for
being [?] .... at your answering .... letters
... my ......, we do ..........
.... towards each otheras all that is for...
.... the one which ..... me, for each have
.... the
...... by ....
S Hassall - who .......
Bungonia - .... B with sheep but the reason

[cross written]
[indecipherable] Bishop ... no
definite true but only says in the letters sent to me whilst I copy
... for you. Give licence [?] for the Ca of Rh when at Canbury.
.... could when defected [?] in the Registry if this ....
...... if which toward my future decisions in the
...... the Deputy Register to prepare
and furnish you with a copy if the scene [?] to write will be
.... without ................I can hardly think that
.... wd go through the farce of scaling [?] a .... if he
did but .... alternately to ... it is. Let me know yr
opinion on the matter. I have written to yr father twice &
have heard twice in return. There is a passage in his letter
& to wit " I had a pleasing convers'n [conversation] with the Bishop
about you, and we both agree in this that it would be
a great blessing if you had a good wife" The Bp [Bishop]
knows Mr Williams & when he hears if my engagement
with her .... I think he would be ............
.......... However there's
......... to the .... he is
..........things ...............
[indecipherable] C. Campbell ....