Robinson to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

The Packet of papers you kindly forwarded on the 12th
Inst—including Blue Book on British Columbia, Mr
Begbie's answers to my questions, & various photographs, & your
letter—I have duly received, & now thank you for forwarding them.

Will you have the goodness to present my hearty thanks to the
Earl of Granville or the Earl of Kimberley, or to both, for
sending out my inquiries & communicating the answers thereto.

Mr Begbie's elaborate & highly prized letter leaves the
wonderful terraces it refers to, unexplained. I should like
therefore to insert the information it contains in the Athenaeum
or some similar periodical for the purpose of stimulating
further investigation. If however Mr Begbie gives no authority
for publishing his name, I presume it will be my duty to abstain
from giving any clue to it. With that limitation, I wish to
publish my letter & [his?]

reply to it, saying that for the latter I am indebted to the courtesy of the Colonial Office.

It may be right to add that I am not going to sell this
information, but to give it to the public as freely as it has
been given to me.

To this I presume there will be no objection.

In the next communication to Mr Justice Begbie may I ask that
my great gratitude be expressed for the very great pains he has
taken to explain the intensely interesting phenomena around him.