Thursday, 5th July, 1838

Last night, Mrs Hindmarsh sat down with me and explained her plans regarding the winding up of our affairs here in the Province.

I was expecting to hear how she intended selling our land here in the town. We have considerable holdings in both North and South Adelaide and with the price of land rising every day we stand to make a tidy sum. But I was surprised to learn that she plans on buying even more land cheaply and selling it at a considerable profit.

In fact, if her plans come to fruition, we will be more than comfortably set up financially for the foreseeable future.

And will Mrs Hindmarsh's plans come to fruition? I have no doubt that, through the majestic force of Mrs Hindmarsh's will, they will come to bear a bumper crop and that large sums of money will be coming our way.

(Later undated note)

Since we will have money, Mrs Hindmarsh has decided that it will not be necessary to spend cash to ship much of our old furniture back to London. Instead, we will be able to afford to buy new when we arrive there.

In particular, she has decided to leave behind a rosewood double ended sofa given to us as a gift by my mother years ago. She has always referred to it as "the ugly sofa" and says that she "is happy to see the back of it".