as I would like to see all the Conlisa side planted. Also all allong the road and the fruit trees removed. Of course the horse will be sent up there and as no beasts will be in the grounds the fruit trees can be planted out and fenced any time, after I supose Maney has sent the posts. I was very much surprized to here the potatoes were not sold. I hope you will see Kennedy about them and of course he will charge the bags at 1/6 each. The country here never looked better and the grass that was sowened on the surface is doing very well indeed. I have some up here good feed now. I wish you could have come up this way before you left but that is impossible. I have had great dreams about Douglas. I hope you have got good accounts from him. Dear boy he is continually in my head for the last few nights. I have had no dreams at all about you this time. Whatever is the way perhaps things may turn out better than I expect. Yours always Archibald John McLean