will I hope come here. I will write you again soon or Catherine will write you. I got a nice small stove for £5.18 and it is a great comfort. I only wish you and Douglas was here for a while and you would see how such things are I have put a floor in the kitchen last week and I am making it something habitable to what it was. Catherine tells me that she will write you soon and wishes to be remembered to Douglas. The only thing she regrets not having brought with her is her spinning wheel and cards so that she could keep us all in stockings. Perhaps you might fall in with one in Auckland. A pound or two ought to get wheel and cards. We had all the horses mustered today and the old Maid and her filly and fold look very well. They all look well. Ever your affectionate brother Archibald John McLean