Correspondence (44p.), 15 December 1844-12 December 1872

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(44p.)

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Owen Stanley to Stokes (15-12-1844) that heard from Kellett; 'do you hear any talk at the Admiralty about another NW Expedition'.

Stokes (London) to F.Seate? (5-06-1846) re steam communication between Singapore and Sydney. (Draft)

Robert Montgomery Martin (London) to Stokes (24-12-1846) sending prospectus for company re steam packet for Australia (wanting).

Richard Owen (Royal College of Surgeons) to Stokes (14-01-1848): Requesting he collects specimens of 'large birds' during surveying expedition to New Zealand; remains found at Waikawaite.

Stokes (Paris) to W.E.Gladstone (15-07-1858): Re steam communication with Australia; potential of Australia to grow cotton; New Caledonia - regret that Captain Erskine's advice not followed; encouragement to be given to settlers 'England cannot I believe have too many well selected and well established colonies, they are to her, like rigging to the mast of a ship'; potential richness of New Guinea; telegraph communications; 'that railroad of civilization, steam and electricity united will thus traverse and lighten up the darkened parts of the earth with elevating influence'; Panama route.

Gladstone (Hawardon) to Stokes (30-08-1858) re obligations of colonization (Copy). 'I regard the further extension of these dominions by fresh assumptions with misgiving and even with dread'.

Stokes (Normandy) to Gladstone (6-09-1858) that the electric telegraph will lighten England's colonial burden.

James Hector (Wellington) to Stokes (12-12-1872) enclosing his certificate of election as Honorary (sic) member of New Zealand Institute.

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