lawyer about the curiosities in your last, I mean the Miss McFarlanes versus your uncle Edward, or your Uncle versus the McFarlanes. My journal has not been written for some days so I must attend to it although I should like to write you a longer letter which you deserve after the nice one you last sent me. There is nothing so pleasing in letter writing as to unfold your feelings without formality or restraint which you need not hesitate in doing with me. It seems strange Douglas that you and I should always happen to write to each other at night. It is certainly the quietest time