FROM R. DUNDAS CAY, Esq., 
to MISS CAY, 
on MR. JOHN CLERK MAXWELL'S Death.

                                                                           Glenlair, 8th April 1856.

     I think you will be glad to hear how we are getting on. It is very nice to see how natural James is. There is no    affectation of more feeling than he really has, but he talks away upon his own subjects when not busy with the    necessary preparations for to-morrow. Fortunately these occupy him a good deal, and as I think the business is of    use to him, I only assist him and keep him talking. For instance, he made out all the list and directed the letters    himself; I sat by and sealed them. Then my health requires a walk every day, so we go out and talk away very
     much as usual all the time, discussing the thinning of plantations, etc.

     It is beautiful to see the feeling of all the people towards him, all thinking for him, and trying to assist him in every    way, and he trying to carry on everything as before:—or when he wants to make a change, his anxiety, lest people    should think he disapproves of the former customs. For instance, he wished to have the servants in for prayers   every evening, instead of our reading by ourselves and reading to them separately; he was quite afraid they should   think his doing so would look as if he thought it was wrong, it not having been done before.