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 LETTER TWENTY-FIVE.

May 21, 1841.

I have just received from the post office your letter dated December 6th, 1840, together with the five newspapers (for which I am much obliged). Yesterday I delivered into the care of Mr. Chapman, chief officer of the brig Robert Newton, a small package containing Sydney newspapers, a few shells, and an unsealed letter with a little of ours and baby's hair. The Robert Newton will go to sea next week, bound direct to London. She will probably arrive about October. My friend Mr Chapman will forward the parcel to you as soon as he gets to London. He may pass through Birmingham on his way to his home in Yorkshire. If so he will call upon