Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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writing desk in wh[ic]h were my letters of introduction, are all wet, the letters [and] papers I dried in the Cabin. The book marks I 5 got from you were in my desk [and] owing to the quantity of paper I had round them, have not been spoiled, the outside one, wh[ic]h was one you gave to William is rusted. 10 The purse I got from cousin Mc- Callum is completely spoiled, and the clasp one you knitted me is rusted also, tho[ugh]! not so much. Still Love I have a long one 15 you knitted me some years since and it will do me. I'll not require one much now as I intend keeping all my money not spending a single cent. 20 I have slept on top of the Biscuit bags in the storeroom ever since the sea struck us, if I get my bed [and] bedding dried [End of Page 48]
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