Fison to Howitt 10 June 1884

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INSTITUTION ETHNOGRAPHIQUE
DE PARIS
LE DELEGUE CORRESPONDANT IN FIJI

6 Taylor St. M Pond
Fiji Le 10 June 1884

My dear Howitt,
I am very glad that
you will be at home on Friday.
thanks for your kind invitations
but I fear I cannpt come on
Thursday, though it is not yet
quite settled as to an engagement
for that day with a friend here.
nor shall I know until tomorrow
whether I shall be free or not.
However, all being well, I can
make sense of gettting away by
morning train on Friday. Thus
will give us the afternoon and evening
for our conversation.
I had to go into Melbourne
with my wife on Friday last, and