Sunday 18 November 2018

Tuesday, 26th June, 1838

With only three weeks before I have been instructed to sail for London there is much to be done and affairs here in the Province to be wound up. Mrs Hindmarsh has decided that I shall go on ahead and she shall stay here in Adelaide until all is finished before returning to London with the girls. Johnny seems to intend staying on in Van Dieman's Land at present.

Of course my wife has made it clear that in her absence I am to behave and not allow myself to be led astray by "loose women", something I do not see as at all probable, but which Mrs Hindmarsh, it seems, believes to be a distinct possibility.

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