This letter was imaged along with item 297, although there doesn't appear to be any connection between them other than proximity in the original storage box.
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Bella Bella
H Aubrey Hall Esq
Cossack
Dear Aubrey
Many thanks for trying to get me that job the other day. If [?] and get me the job if you can as I am about full up of this part of the country Johnnie [? Flinders] last night said that he was going to Broome to [?] [?] in a week or two I never said anything or let him know that I knew anything about the job but I think I know a little more about [?] than he does. I maybe possibley be down in Cossack in a week or two as I am settling
up things here and then I shall swell the ranks of the unemployed. Please remember me to the old [?] .
Believe me
yours truly
Thomas [? J Dumbbell]