will do more to preserve your health and youth of which you are so ambitious than all your forebodings & repining because there are no more balls, dances, parties or excursion Goodbye again Susan. Be a good girl as you promise in the note when sending the gloves & braid to Mr Bethune's & believe me to remain Your very sincerely Donald McLean My reason for fancying that there may be a chance of writing to you from Tauranga is that I hear today that Wellington vessels frequently come there.