Wednesday, February 2, 1876

Feb. 2nd.  We spent the day with Mr. Tilley, gardener for the Gibson's; who own an estate, said to contain 85,000 acres of farm, pasture and timber.  We spent several hours, very agreeably, where we were shown through the garden and orchard of 25 acres with several houses.  We saw trees and flowers unknown to me before.  Opossums and birds are very destructive here.   We had a letter of introduction to Tilley with a request to talk the Gospel, but he said he was not open to conviction; his influence would be against us and not for us; but he would say we had done our part in offering the Gospel to him, which, I told him, is all we asked.