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AN EMIGRANT'S HOME LETTERS

his days with us in Australia. He need not fear the hardships which we had to endure coming here, as we did, entire strangers.

Give our love to my brothers and sisters, with my best wishes for their future happiness. The trifles I send with this are hardly worth your accepting, 'But yet reject them not as such!' You wish to have some account of our passage out from England, which I will endeavour to furnish you in one of my next letters. In the meantime,

I remain.
Yours affectionately;

H. PARKES.

Address, Mr. Henry F. Parkes, officer of H.M. Customs, in care of Mr. W. Magee, bookseller and stationer, Pitt-street North, Sydney, N.S.W.