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[MS 75]

Sydney Orphan House

Good Friday 1817

My Dear Mother

Pardon me if I have addressed you in
too familiar a style: for the great affection and
kindness shewn towards me from time to time
with that the Christian love you have been plea
sed to show me at different times makes
me sincerely look up to you as a Mother in
Israel or rather in Parramatta -

The reason of my writing so soon to
you are two - first I wished to have some
conversation ere I departed and bid you farewll.
When at our house we were too crowded to have
a minute to ourselves - I wished you to read
the letter I gave you for Mr. M - and should
there have been any thing improper therein
not to have delivered it; and should you -
think it right to seal it and deliver it