Many thanks for the phothograph you have send me. It was very kind of you to think of me to send me this token of your remembrance. I certainly, appreciate it, and shall think of you whenever I look at it. Ah My Dear Brother, it is impossible for me to forget you. under favorable circumstance I confess I must prefer you. I have a grate desire to have the beautifull chance to meet you. Ah then with the tears of gladness to be the result of the great love of our friendness A my Sir what pen can describe the meeting that shall be come with your second visit if it please God. It is my pray to Our Lord God to protect you and to keep you glad and happy for ever. Though we are far from each other yet we can speak with letters. Thank God to have your love of friendness with me and mine with your noble person. Hopeing to hear from you, Yours truly, ISMAYEL, from Byramich hizar memuerue iuse bashi. XVIII Material for _Erewhon Revisited_ APOLOGISE for the names in _Erewhon_. I was an unpractised writer and had no idea the names could matter so much. Give a map showing the geography of Erewhon in so far as the entrance into the country goes, and explain somewhere, if possible, about Butler’s stones. Up as far as the top of the pass, where the statues are, keeps to the actual geography of the upper Rangitata district except that I have doubled the gorge. There was no gorge up above my place [Mesopotamia] and I wanted one, so I took the gorge some 10 or a dozen miles lower down and repeated it and then came upon my own country again, but made it bare of grass and useless instead of (as it actually was) excellent country. Baker and I went up the last saddle we tried and thought it was a pass to the West Coast, but found it looked down on to the headwaters of the Rakaia: however we saw a true pass opposite, just as I have described in _Erewhon_, only that there were no clouds and we never went straight down as I said I did, but took two days going round by Lake Heron. And there is no lake at the top of the true pass. This is the pass over which, in consequence of our report, Whitcombe was sent and got drowned on the other side. We went up to the top of the pass but found it too rough to go down without more help than we had. I rather think I have told this in _A First Year in Canterbury Settlement_, but am so much ashamed of that book that I dare not look to see. I don’t mean to say that the later books are much better; still they are better. They show a lot of stones on the Hokitika pass, so Mr. Slade told me, which they call mine and say I intended them in _Erewhon_ [for the statues]. I never saw them and knew nothing about them.