at liberty to leave her and begin my duties. I wrote Uncle to enquire if he had any prospect of being in Edinburgh this winter that he might have an opportunity of seeing and hearing how I was progressing which to you would be more gratifying to hear from him than either of us to which he gratefully replied by giving me a kind invitation to Glenorchy as he does not expect soon to be in town. The most correct way of informing you how I am circumstance is by sending a circular of the school which C has had in her possession for some months and it has got a little soiled of course I do not attend all the masters that are there mentioned nor do I pay quite so high a board. Cath says that she thinks I will be quite long enough there at the end of this quarter but I should like to remain till you or one of my brothers sent for me to go to NZ. We had cheering accounts from Archy lately and we are all very much relieved to hear that he seems to have found as an agreeable employment as sailing on the uncertain billows of the fearless ocean. I wish very much that his wife were enabled to join him soon for she is such a sensible prudent person and one whom I know you yourself would value much. It is necessary to have an economical housewife to superintend