and left us immediately. I then was very anxious about Capt. Watson not coming not knowing that I had forgot to give him my address however it so happened that I had a letter from Mr Atkinson to his father which I mentioned to some person who told him and the old Gentleman came immediately and a finer and I think a better man he cannot be he was very much affected when he read the letters and I believe it was very favourable to me and daughters as he immediately asked us to his House and have kept our friendship ever since. He mentioned to Capt Watson whom we was and on the Sunday morning being the 3rd day after our arrival at the Inn he and his two Daughters and Capt Watson came to take us away as he had got lodgings for me next door to himself (Capt Watson) during the time they was coming to meet me I had taken Coach and drove off from his house – when Mrs Watson kindly asked us in where a dinner was prepared for us in about half an hour in came Capt Watson and very glad he was to see us after we dined he called a Coach and we went to the Inn settled my account and took my Baggage to my lodgings it being pretty generally known by our Sydney friends and those who had visited Sydney as Capt of ships and otherwise of our arrival in London. We had a great deal of visitors I then wrote to my Cousin John Hope in Manchester