Will you pardon my troubling you? I am distressed [to] hear from
the Parents of a young man who is in
Vancouvers Island, that many
of the letters [they] write to him,
never reach him. I have just heard of the arrival
there of my Nephew [the] Bishop of Columbia, & he does
not mention having received
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any letters from home—& I have
written regularly ever since he left England.