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Government House.
Ottawa.

[wild]est part of British Columbia, of about 5000 square miles,
and called it after me. Next year I must make my first journey
through it. There are about a hundred snow peaks over ten thousand
feet, every known variety of big game, and hundreds of lakes
and rivers over which no man has ever cast a fly. Could you not
join me in my first inspection of it?

We all send our love to you all, and to all my friends
in Scotland.

Yours ever,
John