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[Annotation in black ink in top left corner:] Nesbitt
Seen by the Prime Minister
File
[illegible initials] 15/4/33
[Handwritten letter in black ink.]
23 Maple st
[Town illegible, possibly 'Midordale'] 3.24.33
Sir
I am writing to you has [sic] a Western Australian born and all my Family & Rilation [sic] are the same[.] My Husband has been 40 years in this State having came [sic] from Vic [Victoria] and we are all going to vote for seccision [sic] because Sir James Mitchal [sic] being a Western Australian and he says that we could not go on the way we are under Federation therefore he knows what he is saying[.] And we as Farmers [sic] know it and we hope to God we will see Western Australia free[.] I think it would be better if Mr Brennan went to Ireland and advise his Friends [sic] to stay within their Empire instid [sic] of comming [sic] here to advise us[.]
Yours truly
Mrs Nesbit
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