—Wishing I had fixed with you to-day for Fitzgerald to come here on Saturday next, I write now to beg that you will invite him from me to come by an early train, and stay with me till Monday morning, when I shall leave home for Suffolk.

By thus seeing him for more than a hurried and studied interview, I, as well as he, shall have a better opportunity of determining whether any useful colonial work can be cut out for him. At present I think it may.