Mulurulu
Balranald
July 7th 1882
A. W. Howitt Esq
Sale Gippsland
Dear Sir
Your kind letter
containing invitation to
spend a few days with
you did not reach me
till a day or so before I
left town, but in any
case I could not have
availed myself of it.
A few days after my
arrival in town I was
laid up with severe
cold and ulcerated
throat so that I could
go nowhere; when able