horrible man how could you deceive me. He cooly replied I wished to see that there was no bad news before I gave it you. You know not my dear brother the joy which your letters are received, both by Uncle and myself. Uncle teases me for a week saying I shall be happy now since I have heard from Donald than when I cross him in anything that does not please him I am threatened with I must write your brother Donald that I can't manage you etc etc. They say that hope is brightest which dawns from fear. Such are my hopes in all your letters; but my heart says why fear a brother who writes to me with so much tenderness, who seems to understand my very nature & expresses the very sentiments which he himself feels will effect me the greatest pleasure but withal I feel a gulph betwixt us. In mind in aspirations yea in disposition I know we are in unison. But we have not them each other. I know that upon this hangs more than I shall express. In you I shall find the penetrating man of the world endowed with intellect which is the