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2-303 (Text)

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author,female,Reibey, Mary,68 addressee,male

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Letter

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2-303 (Text), Text 2-303 (Original), Original 2-303 (Raw), Raw

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142

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Private Written

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Private Correspondence

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_South_Wales

Created:

1845

Identifier

2-303

part of:

Corpus of Oz Early English

Source

Irvine, 1992

pages

126-29
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754

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2-303-plain.txt

Title

2-303#Text

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Text

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Pencilville New Town, Near Sydney, 21st. June 1845
My dear Cousin
It is so long since I have heard from you and which I intirely blame myself for as of late I have become a very bad correspondent not only with you but with every one/ for with my breavements and embarrasments I almost gave up every enjoyment and social comfort till when I came to reflect I thought it wicked and sinful to dispair / it is the Lords will and it is right we should be punished or we should not know ourselves, / you may remember in my last I told you of my making myself responsible for a certain persons bills to a very large amount/ will you believe it I have never had the slightest help towards returning them altho promised and I am sure might have been dupe

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