To Charles R. Bree

Dr Bree,

I send you Doubleday's box & pray express my regret at having kept it so long. The people of Ipswich (Mayor & corporation &c) seem very anxious to get the Museum as a public establishment & the matter will soon be proposed to the Burgesses. How they will vote we cannot foresee, but great hopes are entertained of success unless certain parties interfere through spite or spleen. I have proposed to Lecture at Bury soon on the Pleistocene. Have you any prominent illustrations on the Drift? I am a little puzzled about the beds over the Chalk at Stowmarket & Coombs. I lately got your [illeg.] their sections - but they don't sufficiently agree. Were the specimens of soils found at Stevens's - or is there any section near you which I could examine? Thanks for Peter Fish which Laflin picked up this morning in my early transmit. I was too hurried to stop myself & he had it ready before my arrival.

Kind regards to Mrs Bree & believe

Ever truly Yrs

J. S. Henslow