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Otaki Friday night 11pm 16 Jany 1852 My dearest Douglas I had a delightful ride to Otaki today and feel much lighter and in fact much better than I have felt before yesterday. My only anxiety is now about you and I wish you would manage in some way not to sleep in a different house from Papa during my absence especially as you may have a return of those foolish fits that you occasionally indulge in. I mean the hysterics. The fainting of course you cannot avoid poor thing therefore keep with Papa or induce him to come with you till my return. I do not like the idea of your being separated. I leave here at 5 in the morning with the Bishop. Mrs Selwyn has gone on board the schooner and sails for Auckland. His Lordship goes by way of Manawatu to your favorite place, the East Coast. Now my own little puss do keep as contented and cheerful as you can. Do not injure your health by constant grief. Think that there is a happy time where we hope under good Providence to meet Mama in Heaven. You should rather envy her happy state than repine too much for her loss. Think also that you have a Papa and a husband to assist and comfort. Study therefore your health & comfort. Do not murmur against the Almighty. Fixed dearest we are all at his disposal and not our own. The life we now enjoy is terminated at His pleasure and patient resignation to whatever befalls us indicates a proper Christian spirit which you my own dearest should earnestly study to possess. I very much fear we are both relaxing in our religious duties but we must not forsake our Heavenly parent whose ever watchful eye presides over all our actions, thoughts and intentions. "My secret thoughts are known to thee, even long before they are to me". The Williams and Mrs Hutton are making kind enquiries for you and asking why you did not come with me. I tell them you could not leave Papa. They all say the change would be so good for you. Goodnight dearest petty. May God keep you is the sincere wish of your own Donald
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3 pages written 16 Jan 1852 by Sir Donald McLean in Otaki to Susan Douglas McLean, Inward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

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Key Value
Document date 16 January 1852
Document MCLEAN-1023612
Document title 3 pages written 16 Jan 1852 by Sir Donald McLean in Otaki to Susan Douglas McLean
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution MD
Author 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1852-01-16
Decade 1850s
Destination Unknown
Englishorigin MD
Entityid 3
Format Full Text
Generictitle 3 pages written 16 Jan 1852 by Sir Donald McLean in Otaki to Susan Douglas McLean
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 45314/McLean, Susan Douglas, 1828-1852
Origin 91229/Otaki
Place 91229/Otaki
Recipient 45314/McLean, Susan Douglas, 1828-1852
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 9 Inwards family letters
Sortorder 0006-0014
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcount 82
Tapuhiitemcount 2 1204
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription The letters from Donald are written from Porirua Barracks, Otaki, Rangitikei, Waikanae, Wanganui and Taranaki. Susan's letters are addressed from Dalmuir Hill (her parent's home) and Wellington Terrace. Many letters are undated and were written prior to their marriage in Aug 1851. Includes correspondence between Susan McLean and her mother Susan Strang (2 letters, undated); one letter from Helen Anne Wilson to Mrs McLean, 30 August 1852
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 394221/Strang, Susan, 1799-1851
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0828
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 314740/Married people
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0726-23
Teipb 1
Teiref MS-Papers-0032-0828-e3
Year 1852

3 pages written 16 Jan 1852 by Sir Donald McLean in Otaki to Susan Douglas McLean Inward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

3 pages written 16 Jan 1852 by Sir Donald McLean in Otaki to Susan Douglas McLean Inward family correspondence - Susan McLean (wife)

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