If I am able in the fall to procure handsome skins for muffs worth their acceptance, I shall send some to the dear little girls: they ought, however, to write to me.

There are few here brought up with the advantages they have received; indeed, the means for education are very limited for both sexes in this colony.

Heaven preserve you.

I shall probably begin my journey upwards in the course of a few days.
* * * * * Brigadier Brock accordingly proceeded to the Upper Province, Baron de Rottenburg having replaced him at Quebec, and, with the exception of a few months in 1811, during which he visited Lower Canada, he continued in command of the troops there till his death, Lieut.-Governor Gore at first administering the civil government.
_Colonel Baynes, the Adjutant-General, to Brigadier Brock, at Fort George._ QUEBEC, September 6, 1810.
The Brigadier-General (Baron de Rottenburg) is Sir James' (Craig) senior in age by a year, but is still strong and active, and looks much younger.

I am well pleased with the little I have seen of him, which by the bye is very little, for I only returned yesterday from Sorel.