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My dear Sir

Herschels dinner ¹ is fixed for the 15^th June (Friday) Tickets are to be had at the Freemason’s Tavern ² by vouchers from any Steward. I do not send you one because I hope you will authorize me to propose you as a Steward which I will do if you will send me your assent by post. There is a subscription of £1 (limited to that much) for a vase – Perhaps if you write direct to Murchison ³ the Hon Sec^ry (2 Eccleston S^t Belgravia) it will save time.

The colored lithographs are well executed but I think Baxter’s ⁴ processes of color-printing might put into your power the colored expression of much more complicated drawings. The Pictorial Album of 1837 is a good specimen which I can show you when you are in town.

Ever very truly yours
C Babbage

1 Dorset S^t Manch^r Sq. ⁵
28 May 1838