A 382: Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld papers, 1822-1862 - Page 80
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Answered Feb.y 9th 1858. See copy.
13 Tavistock Street Bedford Square
London 20.t October 1857
My dear Sir
I called on Mr Lloyd today, and singularily enough in talking of you he mentioned that it is your birthday and that you have completed your 73d year. I wished you many happy returns of the day in which he most heartily joined. I am much obliged to you for your letter, your Key to the language of the aborigines and the Kamilaroi Books. I communicated your information concerning the Blacks by reading that part of your letter to the British Association for the Advancement of Science which met this year in Dublin. It was a large and successful meeting upwards of two thousand persons were assembled together.
I am desirous of knowing about the language of the Tasmanians, who I believe are extinct in Van Dieman's Land, but I presume that those who were taken to Flinder's island remain well if not in a flourishing condition. You