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London 5th. April 1809. Dear Sir,I have been duly favored with your three last Letters of dates 3d. Jany., 20th. do., and – of last month; the latter, without date, having only come to hand a very few days ago. — I should have answered those Letters sooner, but that I have been much hurried with other business preparatory to my Embarkation for New South Wales; but as that is now likely to take place very shortly, I must not any longer postpone replying briefly to your Letters above alluded to. — This however, I can now the more easily do as I find my Brother Charles intends going down to Mull for a short time about Whitsunday, when he will more fully communicate to you my sentiments and wishes respecting my Property and affairs in that Country, and your management thereof during my absence abroad. — In the meantime it is sufficient for me to notice to you the following particulars. — In regard to the Crofters and their Houses, I must refer you to my former Letters of Instructions on that Subject. — I cannot agree to advance them either money or meal, nor can I pay any part of the expence of building their Houses till they are finished and valued as I formerly wrote you. — I have however no objection to the mode you propose of two Crofters joining to build one House at a time between them, and so on till they are all finished. — I likewise approve of the Terms on which you have granted the Crofters their Leases, and which they ought to consider as most reasonable and favorable for them. Being still very anxious to have the Carpenter and Shoemaker as two of my Crofters at Sallen, [sic] I wish you to use your best endeavours in persuading them to come to settle there. — If the Blacksmith at Kilbeg will not agree to come to reside permanently at Sallen, [sic] I shall not any longer allow him to have Lands of mine at all at the former place, which you will be so good as to tell him from me. — The other Crofts that are still unoccupied at Sallen, [sic] you will endeavour to get useful good Tenants for as soon as you can. — I do not like the idea of giving any one Family a double Croft; but I leave a discretionary power with my Brother to do in this as he pleases when he goes down to Mull. — I should be glad to have Lachlan Macquarie and his Family, from Culinish, Settled at Sallen; [sic] and if my Brother sees fit, he may let them have a double Croft as an inducement to come thither; that is, one Croft being in the name of the Father only – and the other in that of his eldest son. — I approve of your Setting the Farm of Kilbeg for one Year for Sixty Pounds; but I hope you will be able to set it at a much higher Rent next Year. — In the statement you sent me of my Rents for last Year, as far as you have yet been able to collect them, you do not specify the Periods for which the Payments were made, and which ought always to be done. — I will therefore thank you, on receipt of this, to be so good as to inform me of the exact amount of Arrears due by my different Tenants up to Martinmas last inclusive. — I informed you in my Letter of the 10th. of January last, that I was due my relation Mc.Quarie of Mc.Quarie the sum of £50. 15. 7, and desired you to pay it to him in small sums as his occasions might require. — He has, however, lately written to me to say that he will require the whole of that money at Whitsunday next. — I therefore request you will be so good as to pay Mc.Quarie the whole of the above mentioned sum of £50. 15. 7 at that term (in case you have not already paid him any part of it), and take his Receipt for it; charging the amount of course to my accot. of Rents. — I shall hope to hear from you once more before I embark for New South Wales. — I remain with regard, Dear Sir Yours very truly L. M.
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