Michael Harcourt Letter 2

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“House of Assembly, Wednesday Afternoon, Feb 23rd 1859, Dear Ellen, I sent you a hurried note the other day, stating that I might not go home on Saturday unless that something were wrong there. I now think that I will not go & you need not send John to Hamilton to meet me. You will have time enough to write me if you want me home & if anything be wrong & I will go, but you must write at once when this reaches you, & should you write me to go home then you must send John to meet me. I am quite well, but have a great many letters to answer, & other writing to do which I cannot get time to do till Saturday, this will keep me busy during that day. I hope that yourself & the children are quite well. I have been expecting a letter every day, but received none since I left last time. Mark, Robert write often. I would like to hear from you two or three times a week at least. I suppose the boys are attending school & I hope conducting themselves [nobly] & well. I know Freddy is a good boy. Has John finished his “sequel”? Last Sunday was cold & boisterous, but since that day the weather has been the finest & even fair in February, warm enough to go without an overcoat. Yours ever, Michael.”