I fear my letters must weary you but when I begin I know not how to stop, but I must close this with the query `Did you ever know a sister that would say to a brother she did not want money'. Well you know considering there are little gaieties here in the way of bucholic dinners etc etc and as ladies must be ladies and have their vanity quite fine by a bow of ribbon and perhaps the extravagance of a flower. [He boasts ?] that brothers are so cautious in expending the contents of their purses. However I need not fear but what I require you will grant me. I shall leave it to your own generosity to allow me so much a year at stated periods. Uncle does not give me a farthing unless I playfully get a few stamps from him and with that he tells me I will ruin him with my stamps. He is a most amusing original man but indolent in his ministerial duties. He adds a paragraph to this. My love to little Douglas. Sweet child how you must enjoy having him with you. I will write again my next mail. Your aff. sister Annabella McLean