LETTER TWENTY-SIX.
Sydney,
My Dear Sister,—
I received yesterday your letter dated February 22nd, together with one from Mr. R. Varney, making the third and fourth since I left England. This will make the sixth letter I have written to you. I wrote Mr. J. Varney last March, and to Mr. W. Hornblower June 3rd. A letter to my father I shall post with this. I have received nine newspapers in all. The papers you sent with this last letter were not likely to reach me, as it appears they came by a ship bound to Port Phillip, the overland mail bringing the letters on to Sydney, a distance of six hundred miles. Our dear little girl has been at death's door since my last, at which time she
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