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them out. If you can pick up any scraps of fossils &c for his collection, 

 I recommend you to send them to him. 



A letter was received some time ago from Van Diemen's Land, an- 

 nouncing that "William had got over his difficulties, with the Lieut. 

 Governor, and was in a fair way of doing well. From a cor- 



respondence, however, which I have lately had with Mr. Wilmot Horton 

 on the subject, I have great doubts about the first part of the story. 

 Should William fail, he will owe it entirely to his own neglect in not 

 sending over the documents in support of his claim, when he ought to 

 have done so. Both Ld. Dacre ^ and myself have done everything in our 

 power to assist his views. Ld. Bathurst is extremely anxious to bring 

 the affair to a conclusion ; but here we still are without anything to shew 

 for him ; altho' his papers ought to have been received about a year ago. 

 I go to the Hoe tomorrow, where, if I cannot get a frank in London, 

 this should be franked for Liverpool. God bless you always. 



R. T. 



I have never seen, or heard more of your man, who brought me a 

 letter from you last year, and who, you said, was about to publish re- 

 marks on U. C. He never lias come near me.^ 



('Addressed on the back.) 



To Ship 9 & Vs 



Honble Thos. Talbot Esqr. 3/5 Q.O. 



(Postmarked) Port Talbot 6/ 



New York Niagara 



Xov. N. York State 27 



1. N. America 



via 



New York. 



1 See ante, page 26. 



2 This may have been E. A. Talbot, author of " Five Years in the TaJbot 

 Settlement," printed in London in 1824. 



