Ahuriri 22 February 1851 Friend, McLean, Greetings to you. Here I still have affection for you even though you are gone from my sight and you also from mine. Friend, there is so much of importance to tell you that I can't tell it in this letter. But perhaps it will be printed in the newspapers about the committee of the Pakeha [asking?] about Governor Grey returning overseas, because their leadership has been opposed in Port Nicholson; I was also in that committee. But perhaps the people will press the Governor to stay. Friend, greetings to you, to you and your children. Sir, may you travel safely across the land and no harm come to you, so you can see your children who are living as orphans without you in Taranaki. The people of Mokau have arrived in Port Nicholson to see me, but I did not see them. Waitara said to me to go out. I wrote that I would go out with McLean. That's all. From your loving child, from Epiha Kororo To his beloved father, McLean