Dalmuir Hill August 3rd 1852 My dearest Donald David Hunter has just come up to tell me they are sending a native overland tomorrow to hear how Mr Govett is and that he would send up in the morning for a letter for you if I wished to write. I am so delighted to have an opportunity of sending a letter as it is uncertain whether a vessel will go this week or not. I intended tonight to have finished the scold I commenced in the other letter but as I have got rid of my toothache I have also lost my bad temper so I shall put it off for some future occasion. Our friend Mrs Stokes has at last gone to her rest. She died on Monday afternoon, seven months and two days after my dear mother. Like her she departed without a struggle