'Well no doubt you will be anxious to know what I am doing and What I have done since I came to this Colony, some few Weeks after I wrote you last, I bought a share in a claim for £8 and I wrought in it making small Wages for about two months. Well, last Monday I bought a share again in a claim for £35 and I hope to do a little better out of it. We will have about 3 months work in it. ..'
'Sir I am veriy thoughtful that I am not payed you my school dous but I am wirking now a pear of stokings.'
for brother Chas O.R.Oman [Omand], from 1 October to 1 January, in Reading Writing and Arithmetic 1s.6d.
Concerning wood salved at Ness of Quoyan, East Yell 'at the risk of several lives'.