Taranaki New Plymouth June 20 1846 My dear Sir, I have the pleasure of acknowledging your kind letter to me of the 18th. inst. together with the copy of a communication addressed to His Excellency Governor Grey by yourself and other gentlemen of this settlement on the 29 April last. My gratification on perusing this testimony of my services as Sub-Protector was much enhanced from never having contemplated that they merited such notice and it will consequently at all times be to me a pleasing reflection that my attempts to conciliate the Europeans and Aborigines of this part of the Island, whether successful or otherwise, have secured for me such a mark of esteem. Nor can I conclude without expressing my satisfaction that with my late appointment does not cease my connection with this settlement in whose inhabitants I have taken the greatest interest, and I derive encouragment from the anticipation that the authority now vested in me by H. Ex. may contribute in some measure to the furtherance of that, as well as to the recognition of better feelings between both races and under the hope of a continuance of the same cordial co-operation and friendship from yourself and the rest of the gentlemen at this settlement. I remain, My dear Sir, Truly yours, Donald McLean. Rev. H. Hanson Turton, Mission House.