Plantation No. 17 and 18 West Coast Berbice
1st September 1834
Dear Mother,
	I suppose I need make no further apology for not writing than want of time. Had I more leisure you should hear from me frequently. 
	From the manner in which I wrote Gep I thought I would not in future be treated so unkindly but I am now determined never to ask any of my relatives to correspond with me again.
	I take the liberty of enclosing a Bill for £25 [sterling] which I beg your acceptance of and hope it may help to release you from any little embarrassment you may labour under. You need be under no difficulty as to getting it cashed the gentleman on whom it is drawn is an old acquaintance of mine and is quite good.
	It is probable you may not hear from me from this country much longer. If I can settle my affairs I think I shall leave here for Upper Canada in March next. If I go there I shall settle there for life. As to making a fortune here it is out of all rule and to be candid I care nothing about returning to Rossshire except I was independent and were this the case I hae not the same attachment to that country as formerly when last there. I sacrificed all the pleasure I ever dreamt of enjoying there to a too High sense of Honour; it is a consolation that I am the only sufferer and that I have myself only to blame.
	I received a letter from Gep on the 19th June when it was written or where I do not know as there was no date. Such writing and composition does not do her much credit. I do not say this by way of deterring her from writing but that she ought to do so more frequently. If she wrote me once a month I would be glad and it would do her no great harm. She mentions somewhat about a letter Mr. [William] Fraser Dornoch wrote me. I never received a letter from him or from any of that family. I am too poor for their correspondence although I should be glad if any of them would honour me so far.
	I had heard from another source long ago that Mrs. Fraser Tain had sent me a Box and am very sorry her kindness should have been so taxed as I can assure you I never received nor saw it [although] I made enquiry. You will make offer of my best thanks to Mrs. F. for her intended kindness which I duly appreciate. I only received one letter from her in May 1833 which I am ashamed to say I have not answered.
	I have yesterday sent a Box to Demerara for Mrs. Fraser Fort George containing two boxes of shells an Indian house with its accompaniments and a jar of ? roast. They are to go by the ship Guiana to Greenock. I wrote my Uncle today acquainting him of it. I hope the articles may prove acceptable as I have been at considerable expense and trouble in getting them.
	I receive the Inverness Papers from Mr. Skinner but he never writes [nor] will I again ask him. You will be kind enough to pay him for the Papers if he wishes for it. I suppose this will be two years due say about £3. Be good enough to tell him I do not want the Papers to be sent me anymore.
	You will be glad to understand I have been enjoying good health for some time back. I am getting rather stouter than I would wish. I am still in the same situation and have now change of another adjoining this but as Ibelong to the same Proprietor I do not suppose I will get more salary. Still [when I am] able I would leave here immediately as the Negroes are very turbulent all over the country and do not seem inclined to work and it will be an impossibility to satisfy both employer [and] labourer and I do not think there will be much [effort in] attempting it. 
	John MacFarlane is living in the neighbourhood again. He is on a cotton estate called Union. There is living with me at present Robert Boyd from Kincardine and F.P. Graham from Invergordon. You can tell their friends they are well as is also James Ross Morangie; Hugh Ross went to Demerara a few months ago. I gave him a letter to Mr. John Mrrary who wrote me a few days ago that he got a situation as Overseer on [Plantation] Meten Meerzoorg.
	Remember me to my aunt Mrs. [William] Sutherland also to my friend Miss Mary Fraser who I hope has not forgot me. I hope she will soon be well married. With love to Mary and family, also Jess ([although] forgetful). I remain, Dear Mother
	Yours affectionately,
	A. McPherson 

	Will you make offer of my [respects] to Mr. A. Leslie and say I will feel obliged if he gives me the address of his brother Robert, and sister once Mrs. McKay. Let me get it [page missing] write. A. McP.