Rangitikei 24 August 1850 My dear Susan Your letter of the 16th inst which I received last night has given me more satisfaction than half a dozen of your previous ones put together. When writing to you by Mr Hickson I was rather disappointed at not hearing from you by the previous mail and at the time I thought of starting so far inland that I might not hear from or of you for two or three weeks. Such however has not been the