(* Mitchell Library manuscripts.) At this time she believed that she was to make the voyage to Australia in the Investigator with her husband, and hardly knew whether the happiness of her new condition or the regretful prospect of a long farewell to her circle of friends prevailed most in her heart.
"April 17th, 1801.
"My beloved Betsy, "Thou wilt be much surprised to hear of this sudden affair; indeed I scarce believe it myself, tho' I have this very morning given my hand at the altar to him I have ever highly esteemed, and it affords me no small pleasure that I am now a part, tho' a distant one, of thy family, my Betsy.

It grieves me much thou art so distant from me.

Thy society would have greatly cheered me.

Thou wilt to-day pardon me if I say but little.
I am scarce able to coin one sentence or to write intelligibly.

It pains me to agony when I indulge the thought for a moment that I must leave all I value on earth, save one, alas, perhaps for ever.