I have safed his runn from being purchased and from being stock[ed] by other parties and Alexander has been writing him. By all means to let me save the run back again if he donot he shall have to pay me from three to four hundred pound for my trouble and expences. If you do not find time to come hear I shall go to se you affter shearing and bring their horses overland and taulk the matter over as I want to se John and his wife. The reaping of the wheat and oats comes on in a fortnight. We shall have a fair crop and a fine crop of potatoes. We have plenty of potatoes for use of our own growing at present. John Campbell has arrived today from