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explanatory notes -I send by the same vessel which takes this letter and by a private hand - the proof sheets of the first twenty four pages of this work - when it is completed I will send for your acceptance a perfect copy of it
Believe me 
faithfully yours
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Government House
Wellington May 19th 1851.

My dear Sir
I have had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 28th of January last, enclosing for my acceptance a copy of your Key to the structure of the aboriginal language of a part of New South Wales - I have perused this work with great pleasure and interest. It is

The  Revd
L.E. Threlkeld
Sydney

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