ately the result of your visit. you will also send me a list of cloathes &C. You may have left at my house. They will be use in the canoe. if you have time you will come to Terrebonne that will depend on the information you receive from Mr. Keith
I am &c
Simon Fraser
SIMON FRASER TO H. G. MOFFATT
Terrebonne 24 Apl 1835
Confidential
Dear Sir
I have to thank you for your kind favor of 20th Jul I am not so well pleased with John McLoughlins behaviour in Montreal as I was when at my house last summer It was not then necessary to trust him with money he has expended more money than I think justifiable, I am consequently determined not to let him have any more till he sends me a regular statement how the last was expended. I take the liberty to enclose a letter open for your perusal addressed to him (Mr. J. McL) which I beg you will seal and forward at Mr. Trudeaus I intend sending Mr. J McLoughlin to Mr. J. M. Fraser in Quebeck whom I will request send the Young Man with as little delay as possible to my brother Alex Fraser at Riviere du Loup, to remain there till next fall, when if he meets with my brothers approbation he will come to Montreal to attend the Medical Lectures A Degree or Diploma from McGill College will carry equal weight with one from Edinburgh. I will of course write Dr D McLoughlin and acquaint him with these particulars, indeed my Dear Sir I am greatly apprehensive that our protege cannot be trusted out of sight, he possesses considerable abilities but cannot be made to study. A physician must study as long as he lives, his toils never end. John McLoughlin in my opinion is a very improper person for a Physician, you will ask what is to be done, I really do not know. I wished to send him to his father but could not get a passage from Mr Keith I request as a particular favor that you will write to the Young Man, direct him [to] procure a certificate from every one of his Medical teachers of his regular attendance at lectures particularly on examination days tell him that you require these certificates at his Uncles earnest request to be inclosed and sent to him (his Uncle) he has no occasion to
