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11 April 1871 Glenorchy My dear Donald Having built a very nice cottage worth about £250 with my own labour with the carpenter who is to get his part of the contract £83 and having no way of selling what produce I have till June when I will have 1/2 ton bacon etc I am going largely into honey and hope next year to have about 1 1/2 tons at the very least. I had 350 lb last year for which I got 5 1/2d at Napier and I have sent down 5 cwt last week for which they onley offer me 4 1/2d there fore the 500 I have to take I intend to send home through some of the Napier merchants if they will gave me 4d in advance. I see by the papers some person in Canterbury sent some home last year and cleared 6 1/2d all expences paid. Now that I have got proper shelter and houses for the bees and well up the management of them I expect to make something worth while out of them. Do you once remember telling me a story about the poor English curate. I never lost sight of that and I am now putting it to some account. I was in hopes you would have been down here before this and you would see for yourself how matters stood, but as you are not hear and that I want to keep my cridit up I have drawn on you for sixty pounds which I trust you will honour. You said I should not loose the £30 I gave to Alexr and the other £30 will be settled to your satisfaction when you come and see what I have done. I hope when you do come that dear Douglas will come with you as now you could enjoy yourselves for a few days up here. This has been a great year for rain and abundance of grass and a good year for surface sowing. They are doing a good deal that way. Young Archd is worth gold to the place, never a moment idle. He is a most deserving young man and Condie does his best. I cannot say any more till we meet. I remain your affectionate brother Archibald John McLean
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3 pages written 11 Apr 1871 by Archibald John McLean in Glenorchy to Sir Donald McLean, Inward family correspondence - Archibald John McLean (brother)

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Key Value
Document date 11 April 1871
Document MCLEAN-1025327
Document title 3 pages written 11 Apr 1871 by Archibald John McLean in Glenorchy to Sir Donald McLean
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution MD
Author 57168/McLean, Archibald John, 1816-1881
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1871-04-11
Decade 1870s
Destination Unknown
Englishorigin MD
Entityid 74
Format Full Text
Generictitle 3 pages written 11 Apr 1871 by Archibald John McLean in Glenorchy to Sir Donald McLean
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Origin 188233/Glenorchy
Place 188233/Glenorchy
Recipient 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 9 Inwards family letters
Sortorder 0006-0258
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
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Tapuhiitemcorpname 57187/Maraekakaho Station
Tapuhiitemcount 112
Tapuhiitemcount 2 1204
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription Letters written from Maraekakaho, Warleigh, Doonside and Glenorchy about station matters and family news.Letter dated 24 Oct 1874 recounts the McLean family's lineage and gives dates of birth for family members
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 4811/McLean family
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0818
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 35583/Genealogy
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward family correspondence - Archibald John McLean (brother)
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 9 Inwards family letters
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0726-20
Teipb 1
Teiref MS-Papers-0032-0818-e74
Year 1871

3 pages written 11 Apr 1871 by Archibald John McLean in Glenorchy to Sir Donald McLean Inward family correspondence - Archibald John McLean (brother)

3 pages written 11 Apr 1871 by Archibald John McLean in Glenorchy to Sir Donald McLean Inward family correspondence - Archibald John McLean (brother)

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