Wanganui 11th. July 1853. My dear McLean, By your letter to John I see I am sadly blamed for not writing, I plead guilty generally, but not on this last/occasion, for I had no idea you would have returned to Wellington, all here believed you would have gone from Ahuriri to Auckland by the East Coast without returning. I trust this change to the North is not to be permanent, should it be so, I sincerely expect to see you again in this life, but if