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 many more. You will see I have some reading now under my own roof, though I was obliged to sell every book I had when I first arrived to buy bread. There is a great fall in the price of this article lately. The 4 lbs. loaf is now only eight-pence. There is some difference between this and 2s. 6d., and almost everything in Sydney except rent is very reasonable. I bought a carpenter's hand-saw from a broker's shop, quite new, and as good as the one you sent me in London, for 4s. What do you think of this?

Yours affectionately, H. PARKES.