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[First letter — conclusion of letter on previous pages:]
If there be not a change at Berrima I think very seriously of withdrawing my name — but I shall not do it hastily — I should be sorry to do it both for the Bishops sake & the Register Generals
TH

Has Mogridge left Berrima
When you write let me know
Remr [Remember] me to them —  TH also to the [Boys?] & [Geo?]

[Second letter:]
Gilmour, near Goulburn
28th April 1857

My dear Mr Hassall

Your very kind letter reached me this morning and I cannot but admire the just appreciation you have formed of our feelings respecting our dear aged Mother's decease — The mere circumstance of her infirmitys requiring our constant attendance, did, indeed, endear her —, (like an infant to its mother,) all the more to her family and caused the void of her loss to be wider, and more