Ottawa

May 28, 1887

Dear Robinson,

I have your note of the 26th. I do not know what you mean by the expression "surprise that you did not write to me before".

As I understand the matter, there was no

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occasion for me to have written to you at all, but I did so out of courtesy and to beg that you would be present on the occasion of my being sworn in.

In further rely to your letter, I beg to say that in February last, when I found that the immediate taking up of my appointment would inconvenience Mrs

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Robinson & yourself, I, of my own notion, and no with the knowledge of, or at the request of any one, proposed to Sir John Macdonald that I would abstain from being sworn in for two or three months, so that you & Mrs Robinson might not be inconvenienced. If you will refer to my former letters on this subject you will find

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that I fixed the time during which I would so abstain-it will expire on the 31st instant, and I propose to take the oaths of office on the following day. As to the reception which you inform me you & Mrs Robinson had intended to hold at Government House, I have written Mr Mowat saying that, so far as Iwas concerned, I would cheerfully have Government House placed at your disposal until, say, the 30th of June.

Yours truly,

A. Campbell

The Hon.
R.B. Robinson
Toronto

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