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Private

Dept. of Attorney General, U.C.

Quebec, 18 June 1862

My dear Robinson:

I intended to have seen you prior to your departure last week for Toronto - the failure was owing to my having mistaken the hour when the steamer was to start. I must [scarcely] say that I regretted this as I was desirous to bid Mrs. Robinson farewell - (explain this and remember me kindly in that [quarter]) and to congratulate yourself besides, on the result

of the most [obstinate] & persevering efforts that man could make, to [urge] on an incoming Administrator the consideration of a matter involving the sale - (or should I not say surrender) of a million acres of land - I can scarcely even now realize how you managed to obtain the decision arrived at- not because there was anything wrong in the [demand] - but how you were propelled as it were to [take the thing up] at all, amidst the turmoil

and confusion incident to the [crisis] by which we were surrounded - your pluck did the thing, that's all - I shall be glad to learn that your English friends will regard the decision to purchase as a favourable one - the tract bordering on an inland sea on one side & on [Frenchis] river on the other offers advantages - not [proposed] by the purchasers of other blocks in more isolated sections of the Province -

faithfully yours

J.A. Macdonald

The Hon. John B. Robinson Toronto