Letter from Fanny Cook to Catherine Munday, 3 November 1875

Corner of Abbotsford and Auden Streets,

Hotham

Melbourne

Nov 3 1875

My Dear Mrs Munday

I trust this will find you and yours quite well I have been trying to nerve myself to write to you for some time past but could not do so but now that James has and he being in very bad health wished me to write for him I need not say how glad I was to see his face once more it is nearly 3 years since he left Melbourne and 2 since dear Alice left we little thought how sad the  would be but it has pleased God to take our beloved one

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by the next out going mail to have them to answer and be able to write you a long and cheerful letter and I know how glad you will be to get it by my own feelings it is very rough weather just now and it affects James very much but I hope we shall have it more settled soon and be able to get him out for a drive to the beach the fresh air will do him more good than the  we can give him we can only do our best and ask our Father to bless the  to say thy will be done with  hearts with kind  to Mr Munday and yourself from Mr Cook and self believe me your truly

Fanny Cook

[PS] Nov 5 James is this morning