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located every Lot, except the Clergy and Caiiada Gompy's Laad, in 

 Howard. By the new regulations 1 do not see a possibility for the Poor 

 Emigrants to get any land to settle upon. 



Pray remember me most kindly to the Chief and Mrs. Robinson, 

 and tell him to write and inform me if he will give me a few days at 

 Port Talbot, in his way to Sandwich. 



I shall be most happy to hear that my friend Hagerman is rein- 

 stated. It was very fortunate that he went to Engd, but I can't see any 

 chance for Henry Boulton. 



Now that Mr. Jameson ^ is here, I wish you would contrive to pay 

 me a visit, even ever so short a one. So God bless you. 



Very sincerely yrs., 



Thomas Talbot. 



The Honble 



Peter Robinson 



C. C. L. 



York. 



(From the Crown Lands Department.) 



X 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Robinson. 



Port Talbot, Oct. 12th, 1833. 

 My Dear Commissioner, — 



I have not written or heard from you, for an age. I looked for 

 you here during the last Month, but now the Season is so far advanced 

 that I give up, seeing you this year. In a late " Courier " I read an 

 advertisement for the sale of the Mill Site in London to take place in 

 London at auction on the 1st of November, with 28 acres of Land. Now, 

 as I am puzzled about those 28 acres, I will thank you to send me a 

 return of them, mentioning the Lots and Streets they are on, in order 

 that I may compare them with my plan of the Town plot, so as to pre- 

 "\>?nt their interfering with my Locations. Pray send the return imme- 

 diately or otherwise some difficulty may occur. I also saw another notice 

 for the sale of lots on Talbot Road South. I hope they are for actual 

 settlement and the Road to be cleared within a given time, and not to 

 sell more than one Lot to a person, so that we may expect the Road 

 to he traveled soon. 



1 Attorney-General, sent out from England to replace Boulton, dismissed; 

 afterwards Vice Chancellor of Upper Canada. His wife was one of the most 

 celebrated female writers of the Ninteenth Century. She visited Colonel 

 Talbot in 1837 on her way to Sault Ste. Marie and wrote a graphic account 

 of her tour in "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles. Her description of 

 Talbot is the best extant. 



