Bay of Islands Jany. 27, 75 My Dear McLean Thanks for your kind rememberance of the 22nd, which seeing you have so many momentous matters on hand, is the greater compliment. I am not likely to ''astonish young New Zealand'' as long as I am in the Land Court, correcting the press takes more attention and time than I can at all give to it just now and I am too fond of my little literary bantlings to allow them to be strangled by the printers D1. If I might take the liberty, I would say, do not to be too anxious about that matter though it is certainly of great consequence. You know what I mean. If I had had time when you were here I should have told you that I have never been ''clear'' as the natives say about that McK-Y episode. The Ngapuhi, as you say, are very good people in their way - but. Wishing you every success I am, Yours as ever, F. E. Maning