Title: Correspondence etc, relating to the Geelong & Dutigalla Association
Date: 1835-1836
Accession Number: MS10258
Image Number: pp0010-003-0

Letter from C. Swanston to G. Mercer Oct 30, 1835.

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Should you not see the advantages likely to be
derived from this Enterprise that we here are sanguine
will be the result of our undertaking and not personally
wish to engage in it I have to hope that you will
notwithstanding give to us the full weight of your ~
influence, and if you cannot take the management of
the Trust we have forced upon you that you will have
placed it in the hands of some one who will act for
you on our behalf and carry through with the Home
Government our claims and proposals.

We are most anxious and desirous that the Home
Government should accept our offer of an yearly ~
tribute rather than of a purchase money – It would
be in every sense the most advantageous bargain
for us to make.

I am My dear Sir,
Yours very truly,


(signed). C. Swanston


To
George Mercer Esq.


Dryden.
near Edinburgh.

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