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[MS 1423]
Rev Sir Banner Hills Gaol Station 9th August
1823

It is with very great pleasure that
I now acknowledge the receipt of your kind and acceptable
inquiry in my behalf by a pious characgter of this Station
at Kissing point Chappel, and likewise not forgetting the
Gratitude shewed to us at Paramata Court HOuse
in the month of December last, I beg leave to be excused
of taking the libery of addressing this letter yo you being
an out/cast - Teenty four years havign elapsed since I saw
any of my relatives but the prodical Son has long
enough "perished with under in distant Climes; it is time that he should arise and go unto his father
that is wanderings may cease, and his soul may
be Comfored. the

[MS 1427]