Toronto, 27^th June, 1892

My dear Robinson,

I was glad to receive your note. Thanks for your congratulations and kind words in connection therewith. I had some difficulty about accepting the honor, because I knew that many of our people have adopted Mr. Blake’s view of the subject, and would disapprove of my accepting the honor, because I knew that many of our people have adopted Mr. Blake’s view of the subject, and would disapprove of my acccepting. His Excellency wrote me several very kind letters urging acceptance, and combating the difficulties he supposed I might have. All my colleagues buy one approve of my acceptance, and all whom I saw previously [the letter "t" has been crossed out] to my accepting urged me to take that course. My doing so has not been very heartily endorsed by any of the Reform papers, and has been criticised adversely by several of them. Still, on the whole, I do not think my acceptance will do any harm to my party or to myself politically, and

The Honorable
John Beverley Robinson,
14, Alfred Place,
South Kensington,
London, Eng.

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I am glad that I accepted. My good wife desires her thanks also for your congratulations and good wishes. She continues to be such a sufferer that she has been unable to derive from the honor all the pleasure which otherwise it would be giving her. She is advised to try the experiment of Penetanguishene this summer, and we leave to-day. I do not expect to cross the Atlantic this year, though I should like extremely to be in the Old Land at the time of a General Election.

Now that you are more a man of leisure that the General is, might you not take up yourself those memoirs of your father’s Life and Times which I have occasionally spoken of? The matter of publication might be a subsequent consideration.

Lady Mowat joins me in kind regards to your daughters and yourself.

Ever yours faithfully,

A Mowat

Excuse my using the typewriter.

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