To George Knights 11 November 1854

My dear Sir,

As I do not see my suggestions in the Chronicle it strikes me as possible that you only sent it to the I. J. It was addressed in the plural to the Editors of the Ipswich Journals. If it was sent, & the Editor of the Chronicle has not thought it right to insert it - well & good - but if it was not sent, please be so good as to forward this note which will explain the cause. I should be sorry that a gentleman from whom I have received so much kindness & attention should fancy I was sending to one paper & not another. I had a letter from Knox yesterday if I would join in a requisition to call a meeting at Hadleigh for the 27th. If I had received this earlier I would not have written - but I was fearful the Central Committee were forgetting us out of the way country parishes. I had written privately some time back, to the Secretary to make a little suggestion - but as nothing came of it I ventured to write as I did for I feel confident some such plan would meet with a good response. I shall write to Rigaud to know if he can receive me on Monday as well as Tuesday - for I have much to get thro' in the morning arrangement of Diagrams &c, & am afraid I might fatigue myself too much for my lecture, if I came over on Tuesday, & possibly get into some mess or muddle about fixing the diagrams. I have prepared 2 or 3 illustrations to be useful at the lecture & then deposited in the Museum. I go to Kew on Tuesday & mean to have a talk with Sir Wm. & Dr Hooker about the requisite types for Botany

Ever yrs truly

J. S. Henslow