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find you in health sufficiently good to admit of your paying me the so 

 long wished for visit. Provide yourself, therefore, with a strong one- 

 horse Waggon, in which you and your Servant will travel more com- 

 fortably than on horse-back, and set off immediately after the receipt 

 of this for Port Talbot, where you must make up your mind to remain 

 one whole month, at the least, and I promise you that you shall livei as 

 quietly and regularly as you please; 1 shall not give you the Blue Pill, 

 simply my fine Southern air will do the needful by sending back another 

 man. I am particularly anxious for your being with me the first week 

 in May so that you may not feel any impatience to be in York before the 

 middle of June, when Emigrants may be expected to begin to arrive 

 Pray write by the return of Post informing me of your movement. The 

 route I recommend is : I'st day to Sumner's 2nd to ^I'^ntford, 3rd to 

 Willson's at Simcoe (Long Point). 4th to Winan's in Bayham, or if you 

 can to Loders' at Little Otter Creek, and 5th day to Port Talbot. Those 

 are easy stages and will not be too much for you. Should the Deed for 

 the Lot which I purchased of you be made out, pray bring it with you 

 and have the goodness to say to Mr Markland that I am pestered to 

 death for the Deeds of the persons I left the memm. I left in his office 

 for, and if executed bring them also. 



I take it for granted that the navigation is now open from York to 

 Quebec. If the Chief or yourself shd. hear of a safe opportunity to 

 forward the little Dog to Capt. Airey, at the Castle of St. Louis, pray 

 do, for every letter I get from my nephew expresses much impatience to 

 have it. I expect some hot work at my Benefit on the 23rd, Squibs flying 

 in all directions — ^with my kindest regards to all the Chief's family 

 believe me very sincerely Yrs 



Thomas Talbot. 

 (From the Crown Lands Department.) 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Pobinson. 



The Honble Peter Eobinson 

 &c. &c. &c. 

 York. 



Port Talbot. April 23rd. 1832. 

 My Dear Eobinson : — 



Mr. Saml. James is now with me, and I have recommended him to 

 take No. 17 in the 1st Con. of Carradoc, a good lot. I will recommend 

 that I should locate him on the above Lot on the same regulations that 

 I locate Land, which will save him from the expense of purchasing. He 



