"The colonist ([is] Wakefield himself) ... dictated to A. Allom in 100 days ... when plans for the Canterbury settlement were gathering momentum ... today it is chiefly of ...

A detailed description of the New Zealand Association's plans for the colonization of the country, first published in 1839.

These letters by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, an influential promoter of emigration to New Zealand, were first published in 1868.