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I sent some time since a small Box to your address p. the Sch 

 Stirling to be landed at Captain Patterson's which I trust you have 

 'ere this ^received — 



When anything to your address comes into my hands I shall at all 

 times endeavour to have it landed at or as near your place as possible — 

 I remain Dear Sir 



Very truly yours 

 William Duff. 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Robiison. 



Private 

 My Dear Commissr,— Port Talbot, June 30th, 1833. 



It was indeed a great treat to me to see your handwriting after 

 having been so long without hearing from you, in fact 1 was appre- 

 hensive that you were unwell, until Major Winuett was here, who grati- 

 fied me much by telling me that when he left York, that you were 

 enjoying better health than he had known you to do for two years 

 before. It is my sincere wish that you may keep so. 



I am glad Sir John ^ got back to York without difficulty and was 

 satisfied with his tour. The weather and roads were good, excepting the 

 day he left Port 'Talbot, when, in about two hours after he set out, it 

 commenced raining. He promised me to go by the North Branch, where 

 he could find shelter at any moment, but he cut thro' the woods to 

 Monsee Town, by which 1 suppose he had his share of the rain. 



1 shall be very glad if you will turn over to the Minor College, 

 Lot îN'o. 1, in conn C, in South wold, as 1 can in that case sell it myself, 

 instead of Col. Wells, having ail the College and School land in this 

 District under my Superintendence. You say that it is reported that 

 persons have made good bargains by purchasing those Landg from me. 

 I don't know where, for I have not sold an acre for less than 13s 6d 

 currency per acre, and some for L3 and L4, and when, considering that 

 the land lay in unsettled Townships, 1 think those prices quite high 

 enough. The only person I felt difiSculty with was Mr. Emsley, who 

 applied to me to purchase 5,000 acres of the School Land in AVestminster, 

 however I took good care not to close with him until he pledged him- 

 self to me that he would dispose of the Land to actual Settlers with as 

 little delay as possible, and to my great relief he came here a few days 

 ago and requested as a favor that I would allow him to withdraw, which 

 I did. While on the subject of selling Land, I am to beg of you not 

 to sell any but the Clergy Lots in the Township of Howard, for I have 



1 Sir John Colborne, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, afterwards Loi'd 

 Seaton. 



