Your interesting letter of the 2d April did not reach my hands (I know not from what cause) until the 5.th of this month (avant-hier), & I fear you may have thought me inattentive to your wishes. So obviate such an opinion I trouble you with this line merely to say that I shall endeavour to furnish you with satisfactory answers to your several Queries respeting |sic| the Malayan language & its dialects; but this will necessarily require some little time, & especially as my Books are, for the most part, at my house in the country.