Sir,

If you have still “Varieties of Vice Regal Life” by you to refer to, you will see there (Vol. 1. page 361) that the number of Pitcairn Islanders brought to Norfolk Island was 194:—² since I received your note, I have looked into my dear husband’s note book of his two visits to Norfolk Island, to see if I can find there any further information on the points you mention, but I am sorry to say that I can find none. He visited Norfolk Island twice, once in Sept^er 1857, about fifteen months after the Pitcairners’ first arrival there,— and again in 1859: but he does not mention their actual numbers on either occasion. None of them returned to Pitcairn’s Island till after his last visit;—³ and, as we left Australia early in the year ’61,⁴ I have had little opportunity since of hearing of them. I should think however, that you would have no difficulty in obtaining such later statistical information as you wish for, through the Colonial Office.⁵

I remain | Your obed^t. serv^t. | C. L. Denison