ROBINS, Joseph
502
37 Bedfordbury
St.Martins in the Fields
August 5th 1819
Honored Sir,
I have some idea of emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope with the assistance of Government but the short account which the news papers give of this emigration is the cause of my troubling you with a few questions as all the knowlege I can obtain is a description of the country and that Government will give a free passage and measure the land and return the said ten pounds deposited before the embarkation of the emigrants. Sir, pardon my intrusion but the questions I spoke of are these viz. how shall I and my family be treated or how can we get a living. Sir, dose Government furnish the setler with a place to shelter himself and family dose Government provide for them the implements of husbandry or are they to buy all these things with the said ten pounds and to buy seed and to maintain themselves till such time as the land will bring forth asficient to keep them in food and raiment. An answer to this will much oblige
Your most humble and obedient servant
Joseph ROBINS