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"Pennyville"
Whisker St
Manly N.S. Wales.
17/1/99
Aubrey Hall Esquire
Cossack
Dear Sir,
Just a line [? redeeming] my promise to return papers relating to North West Australian Goldfields Ltd. which are duly herewith enclosed. Please accept my thanks for same & allow me to send the sympathy of one who has suffered, but who is now like [?] enjoying the delights and interests of a temperate home when peaches are juicy cool & cheap say 3 dozen for a tenner or even cheaper if you con-descend to purchase from the itinerant [?] vendor who plys his calling with ardour, entreating you to pay twopence [?] for grapes or persuading you to exchange a threepenny bit for four dozen apples or fourteen luscious full sized bananas, such as the pleasures of the poor one who suffered but who now receives good things. Trips in steam boats along beautiful shores accompanied by the laughing dark eyed daughters of this cooler clime do make one forget promises made near [? shore] , but the stirrings of a not altogether shrivelled conscience mummur Aubrey Hall's paper & so 'twixt mouthfuls of watermelon, cool as a refrigerating [?] & [?] of the picturesque and beautiful the once-was-North Western looks towards the sufferers & smiles the New Years greetings to those who are still inclined to [? pout] o'er Cossack sands.
Yours in cool [? parts] Charles H Wilson.
