A vessel is hourly expected so that I shall again write. I hope soon to get through the more difficult part of my duties. You told me it was better to finish as much as I could when here than to have to leave you again. Do not suppose I am happy without you. Take care of yourself and believe me to be ever your own affectionate husband. Donald McLean In case the papers may be in the tin box I send the key of it also. I have been looking among my keys but cannot find that of the tin box. You must have it if not I may have lost it.