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around you a virtuous and industrious
Peasantry. In the Spring I hope to send you
the six German Families from the Rhine.

The Government is now quite alive to the
Importance of Emigration, and acting upon it
with some show of a desire to promote the
true interests of the Colony.

James will I trust return with a good number,
and then you will come Home to make
your Selection, dear William, in more Senses
than One. I do so long to see You.

I have now written my little say, and hasten
to subscribe myself, my dear William

Your affectionate Brother
Edw. MacArthur

London Dec^r. 8th 1836