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Answer to the Foregoing letters of Mr Nicholls
Halifax, May 9 1843

Dear Sir
I avail myself of the first leisure moment to reply to one or two points touched on in your letters received during the Winter, and upon which no decision has been come to.
Harris's claim to the logs I cannot recognize. for if I do, then will be no end to old bargains of the same sort, and we shall never have possession of the land or to Keep treppassers from destroying the timber.
Burnt Camps are so common that I cannot relieve Mense, who is a young active fellow, able to retrieve, by industry and economy what he has lost.
If you think it best to let Neal take a grass off Knockwooths lot this year, you may, but it must be distinctly