Glenorchy June 12th 1869 My dear Sir I dare say you will think it strange that mrs McLean nore myself have not written you before this. I can only say that you are often in our. Mind and almost daily spoaken of in this house, indeed there is no one in New Zealand, that we both esteam as we do yourself out of our own emidiate relation, and nothing would gave us more pleasure than if it was possibble to spend some of our time in your company but that is I fear impossible as old age is now beginning to show itself on us as well as on yourself there is not a time I go down to your