1/2 dozen Alippa pines and 1/2 dozen upright sypress to plant in the corners of the padock so that they may be growing there to a good size when Douglas comes back. I hope you will have them put in with care. They do not want to be put in the ground to deep. I have planted out a good many with this fine weather. I am glade to say that Catherine is much better. I hope you are all well down there. I would have liked Kate to have stoped longer but she was very anxious to get down while the Council was sitting. I am very much trouble with dreams for the last 10 days. I think we are to get news of some of our relations having parted this life, of care and trouble. It is likely my wife's father & mother. I had several dreams about you & Douglas but I think them good and I saw myself one night in the drain at the back of the