Heanee Flats, Napier the 11th of January 1872 Very Honourable Sir, After thanking you for the kind leave you gave me to see Kereopa, I come to beg humbly for another favour, Would you return to me at an early opportunity the letter written with a lead pencil that Mr. Tylee is forwarding to you. Part of that letter was written by me under Kereopa's own dictation, the other part was written by Kereopa himself, and the whole of it directed to F. Reignier. My reasons for asking for that letter are the following. Firstly. I wish to let F. Reignier see it and I have no copy of it as I gave it up into Mr. Miller's hands before leaving the