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Melbourne
September 1.06
My dear Howitt,
I shall be delighted to see you and if you let me have a list of the works that you require I will have them brought down into the ??? room where you can work at your leisure without fear of molestation by the "great unwashen". The letter to the "Athenaeum" and the "Academy" were Excellent and will come as a surprise and revelation also to the enemy who has been for so long free from criticism in regard to his ethnologic vagaries that he