From Thomas Stanley   24 January 1872

Sir

In your origin of Species I find an allusion to the glacial Researches of Doctors Haast and Hector in New Zealand.¹ I take some interest in antient glaciers, and would be much obliged, if you will say, are the researches published in our language?² and if they are, what is the title of the book? and is it possible for me to obtain it through a bookseller?

In Procuring a copy of your “naturalists voyage”, I had some faint hopes of the subject being adverted to again.³ You give maories, and missionaries, but none of the ices of the antipodes; nor so much of a stone as a would be geologist dare to sit upon

I had no expectations from Jukes, consequently am not disappointed in his “Letters”.⁴ He deplores the conduct of gentry of supposed amiability, to whose good guardianship he had consigned his lady relatives in England. As he was a devotee of the glacial and fossil religion, He should have ballasted his correspondence with a few ices and lithological speciemens from that other hemisphere, the would have served my turn, and they should be of immense service to amity in her administrations of cool admonition to His Excellency and others, when they forgetful of their dignity, turned to rend the lambs on her pastures, and devour the eggs on her hen-coops

Hoping to be excused for this intrusion | I remain your obedient Servant | Thomas Stanley