society for examples of your guidance. I have often felt that your inclinations lead you to associate more intimately with persons of a doubtful position in society than with those of a more genuine and respectable description and the sooner you change your sentiments on this subject the better. I am afraid from the number of people that are coming in that I must close my letter. Be a good and dutiful girl. Remember me to Papa. He will have received my letters by the Kawai cutter that left here yesterday. Tell him I have heard of the young Bakers that Judge enquired for, and believe me ever Your own affectionate Donald McLean