March 2, 1887

Government House,
Toronto

My dear T.C.P.

Thank you for your note just received. It is like yourself as kind and nice as can be. Things are now as they should have been at first without any unnecessary correspondence. The first action on the part of ones supposed friends was absolutely indefensible and I should never have been placed in the position

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which it was intended I should accept without demur. We were fully prepared for a change in the Lt. Governorship before long & I for one as you will know was always sure it would be Sir Alexander to whom personally we have ever had a kind & friendly feeling. "All's well that ends well" but rest assured I can never think without holy anger (& there is such a thing!)

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of the unwarrantable way in which the occupants of Govt House for six years and a half were at first told to leave it without one moment of consideration. I am glad you have a friend in the young Lt. Governor. The one you now have in [Govt] House could never even have thought of doing what his successor only a week

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ago apparently contemplated

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