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No 3/30

Carrick on Shannon 7th. Dec^r. 1843

My dear Brothers,

I have received a Letter from dear
dear Mary. Her Condition and Affairs give me the deepest
Solicitude. Let me now hope you will at length be
convinced of the tremendous consequences of neglecting
in regard to Property those Forms and Guarantees which
the Wisdom of all Experience has determined to be
requisite – Unhappily most unhappily, the Practice of our
Family has been at varience with these salutary obser-
-vations. Had it not been so, and had poor Mary's
Property been settled upon her, with a corresponding
Settlement by that insane Man her Husband – She and
her Children would not now stand in the perilous Position
in which they have been placed by his Madness – And yourselves,
to say nothing of the extreme hazard of interposing to
prevent the impending Crash, without insisting upon all who
like yourselves had become involved in the Property bearing
their fair and equal quota of the Risk – it does seem to
me inexplicable that when you had taken upon yourselves
this appalling Responsibility you should apparently have
so entirely dismissed the Subject from your Minds, that
Month after Month was permitted to elapse without one