Haimatochare translation of letter 1: from Menzies to Governor 1/28/08
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To His Excellency, the General Captain and Governor of New South Wales
Port Jackson, June 21, 18**
Your Excellency has deigned to order that my friend, Mr. Brougthon, accompany the expedition currently being equipped for O-Wahu as a natural scientist. It has long been my dearest wish to visit O-Wahu again, since the shortness of my last stay did not allow me to develop some most remarkable natural historical observations to their end results. This wish renews itself twice as vigorously since we, Mr. Brougthon and I, are long accustomed to making observations collaboratively: through science, through the same closely linked research, and through instantaneous communication of these to help one another.
I ask of your Excellency then to authorize that I accompany my friend Brougthon on the expedition to O-Wahu.
With deepest respect, etc.
J. Menzies
P.S. The requests and wishes of my friend Menzies are the same as my own: that Your Excellency would deign to allow him to go with me to O-Wahu. Only with him, only when he shares my efforts with accustomed passion, can I do that which is expected of me.
A. Brougthon
Last update: January 28, 2008