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195 William Street
Sydney. N.S. Wales
April 12th. 1859.
His Excellency
Sir George Grey K.C.B.
Governor. Cape of Good Hope.
My Dear Sir George
I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of 8th March last together with the copies of your library Vol II. Parts I. II. and III. in which you have been pleased to notice my attempts at recording for posterity the Language of the Aborigines in the neighbouring locality, and for which I return you my sincere thanks. The collection of all the works in the various languages will be most valuable. I notice at page 14 Vol II in Part 3. [indecipherable] Manuscript To the Governor and his Lady the word parnus is used to designate and his. I strongly suspect the word is very similar to our conjoined dual case used conjunctively [indecipherable]. p and b being so much alike and the nasal ng being dropped, so that the sense would be i the person speaking or acting dedicate to thee, the Governor and thine. see grammar P[indecipherable] I shall feel obliged if you could spare me two of three copies more of a pamphlet with which you have now favoured me, Respecting the Lexicon. I am progressing but having to copy it out one more than I thought I should have to do before I could please myself in the matter, and so many other things pressing on my time