FL14372991

[MS 695]
New South Wales Parramatta
1st February 1821

Very dear Brother
This letter is only intended
to be very short however tho contence
I am ? with sufficiently appologize therefore
- But now to business for a while knowing not how
you may be situated as to cash etc I do
incluse a ? of exchange for one Hundred
Pounds from your Stock and shall indeavour
to make up all I possibly can to send
by next conveyance - I have never been
able to get the money from Mr Palmer (?) & I
dare say I ? ? - your little house in
Sydney has given me a good deal of trouble
? can I get the rent regularly indeed ?
as much as would pay expenses if charge it
is in consequence of my being so far from TOwn -
Mr H. Cowper wll be the bearer of this letter
he is going to complete himself in his ? pro
fession in the Ship whith our COmissioner of
ENquiries to this COlony - in a conversation
yesterday with the Revd Mr Cowper he thinks as
there are to be send out 6 or 7 more Ministers.