Part 01: G. W. Rusden letters, 1846-1900

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James Macarthur Esq Camden Park Camden New South Wales

[envelope back franked:]

MELBOURNE FF 16 60

?? LETTER SYDNEY A FE20 1860

15 Feb: 1860

My Dear Sir,

Thanks for your kindness in acknowledging my letter, and the trouble you took in sending my pamphlet to your brother. I am not desirous to disturb the matters referred to in the pamphlet: but when I heard from Sir Chrles Nicholson in Sydney that (Childers or) some one had in England conveyed to him some disrespectful statements about my conduct in office as Clk of the Ex:Council, I determined to print the letters & someday or other D.V. I do not think I could have printed them with any delicaccy twoards your brother without speaking to him of my intention to do so, and I was anxious at the same time that he should

become cognizant of (what seem to me) the dark deeds done in his name. His departure from the Colony made it necessary for me to do something at once, if I was desirous to put him in posession of the pamphlet. Do not think me at all cavilling as to what you say; on the contrary I hold that no one is a decent judge in his own case, and would therefore mistrust my own judgment where it differs from yours. I never thought of publishing. The public know and care nothing about the matter, but amongst those who know me, it is quite possible for a few insinuations to be made by Childers, Clarke, Haines or Stawell, who only I believe were the lively actors in the drama behind the scenes which was played upon me, and so fas as a mere