expect you to work a little more than you do at present when you get there. I fancy I like that part of the country much better than this although this is a most interesting district, and it may be some years before we have such society at the East Coast. Mr W King, whom you saw at Wellington is supposed to be engaged to a young Miss Richardson of this place. There are no other matches among persons that you know. I am thinking just now what pet is doing. I trust she is not at the kitchen fire as usual. I like ladies to confine themselves more to their rooms than to be seen so frequently roasting over a kitchen fire. I called up this evening on Mrs Webster who seems much distressed about her husband who was unfortunate in losing his appointment. Poor thing she cried & begged I would do something for him but unless Sir George helps him, which I trust he may, what can