Letter from Robert Walpole to his father, November 26 1872

 
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Item 6
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Written from the HMS Blanche, Sydney. Writes to his father grieved to have received news that his father was threatening to dishonour his bills after drawing money without his father's permission to pay for clothes. Describes his service through the Pacific Islands; requests his father uses his influence and power to secure him an appointment on one of the schooners being built to suppress the slave trade; continues to discuss money matters in relation to clothing needs and his intentions of paying off his debts.

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