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My dear Susan You have been most attentive in writing by every opportunity, and unexpected letter is a great treasure in the bush. The second one you wrote to Manawatu I did not of course receive as I started punctually on the day I fixed for leaving Mr Duncan you say nothing about your Waikanae trip. Has it been a failure? I had a very pleasant trip across the country after a long days journey you can scarcely conceive how exceedingly comfortable and clean a tent feels. You have dry nice fern for your bed covered over with oilskin and an oppossum rug. Generally the encampment is on the bank of a river or near a nice spring where there is bush for firewood. When night fully sets in to look out at your tent door you will see the fires of your party blazing up in 20 different places, all of them enjoying themselves singing songs or telling some antiquated tales of times gone by or listening to an old greyheaded senator who witnessed the suns of many summers & the various extraordinary events of past times but all this possesses no charms for you town ladies, something very different is required for your amusement therefore I need say little more on this subject excepting that I am now going to start up the river to select a nice spot as an encampment for myself & party in a bay where we can have wood, water & fish & spend our Xmas quietly. I am obliged to end this letter abruptly. The natives are waiting for me and if I do not avail of this tide I will lose a day so you must not blame for a short letter as the chances are I will write you a much longer one yet before the vessels sail but in case I should not have another chance of doing so remember me kindly to Mama & with every wish that you may have a happy Xmas believe me to be Always yours sincerely Donald McLean Decr 23rd 1850
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3 pages written 23 Dec 1850 by Sir Donald McLean to Susan Douglas McLean, Inward and outward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

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Key Value
Document date 23 December 1850
Document MCLEAN-1022813
Document title 3 pages written 23 Dec 1850 by Sir Donald McLean to Susan Douglas McLean
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution MD
Author 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1850-12-23
Decade 1850s
Destination Unknown
Englishorigin MD
Entityid 36
Format Full Text
Generictitle 3 pages written 23 Dec 1850 by Sir Donald McLean to Susan Douglas McLean
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 45314/McLean, Susan Douglas, 1828-1852
Origin Unknown
Place Unknown
Recipient 45314/McLean, Susan Douglas, 1828-1852
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 9 Inwards family letters
Sortorder 0296-0205
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcount 43
Tapuhiitemcount 2 1204
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription Mainly letters between Susan Strang and her future husband Donald McLean. Includes a letter from her mother Susannah Strang to McLean, 1849; letter from E Shand to Susan Strang, written from Portobello, 1850 in which she gives her impressions of Dunedin
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 394221/Strang, Susan, 1799-1851
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemplace 65687/Dunedin City
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0826
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3670/Courtship
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward and outward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0726-22
Teipb 1
Teiref MS-Papers-0032-0826-e36
Year 1850

3 pages written 23 Dec 1850 by Sir Donald McLean to Susan Douglas McLean Inward and outward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

3 pages written 23 Dec 1850 by Sir Donald McLean to Susan Douglas McLean Inward and outward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

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