RKBP-1097

Ottawa [July] 8th 1862

Dear Doctor

Your letter has reached me and is worth more than $8.60 of itself. There are so few merry things going in these [sad] days,but I have lost my [Nursery] spruce and I want another, and I want my friends to remember me and wish me a happy New Year So please send me as good a [Nursery] spruce as possible Mr [Glorne] wants an Austrian pine the best you can give him Mr Geo. C. Cambell our partner says that he left an order with you (by letter) which he wishes you fill in the [spring]

so please send the lot together so at the proper time in spring. And as I am something of an amateur gardenter write me of any nice thing you have [illegible]

I showed this your letter to Dash and he said he owed you $2.50 which he would send by mail

I enclose the amont of the bill and am [entitled] to the blessing

[Yours Truly]

[B C Cook]