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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

Correspondence 1821 to 1837.

Here only letters by known settlers or their families, or letters of great relevance to the 1820 settlers, have been transcribed, whereas ALL the 1819 correspondence was transcribed (see CO48/41 through CO48/46) whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape.

Unless otherwise stated letters were written to either the Secretary of State for the Colonies or his deputy.The original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been placed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters by the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original spelling has been maintained. Reference numbers, where given, refer to printed page numbers stamped on the letters and will enable visitors to the National Archives to locate the letter more easily.

HALEY, Mary (wife of Michel HALEY), 1832

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/147, 345

 

No. 13 Carrier Street
Buckeridge St
St.Giles
3rd August 1832

My Lord,
          I hope your goodness will pardon me for taking the liberty of reminding your Lordship of the letter I had the honor of addressing you about four weeks since, with a letter of Major BIRNY's enclosed which he sent me from the Depot of the 75th Reg't of Bristol, respecting my being sent to the Cape of Good Hope, and I have never received any answer. I shall feel myself much obliged to your Lordship if you will have the goodness to return me Major BIRNY's letter, as it is my intention to go with my two children to the Depot, when he will expect me to produce his letter. Having no Parish Relief nor any means of getting my living in London, but what is given to me by the Charitable and Humane, mine and children's distress is indescribable, for we are almost famished. I am with one submission, my Lord
Your Lordship's most humble servant
Mary HALEY
Wife of Michel HALEY, Private of the 75th Reg't)
NB I am the Bearer hereof

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