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[Page 61]

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North Brisbane
Sept 9th 1857

My dear James

Since I last wrote to you, I am thankful to say, my mind does not seem quite so confused, I trust the prayers of Gods people have been heard on my behalf but oh! dear James if others, loved
[&not valued?] [indecipherable] dear departed child so very

[Letter written by Mary Betts, mother of Charles Marsden Betts (1833-1857), who was was the curate at St Saviour’s Church, Goulburn. He drowned in the Wollondilly River in 1857. Source, m_382-383_marsden_family.pdf, National Library of Australia.]

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BarbM

This is a letter written by the mother of the Revd Charles Marsden Betts, who drowned in the Wollondilly River in 1857. A letter written by him from England to James Hassall is in this collection, pages 19 to 24. Signed Mary Betts on page 64