From C. G. B. Daubeny 18 January 1834

Dear Henslow,

I have sent you this circular paper to have your support on my [illeg.] for the Botanical Professorship. My only opponent is Dr John Bright of Manchester Square (not the traveller) who so far as I can learn has never given any public proof of even a taste for natural history, much less of his acquirements in it. He is one of the known physicians at the Coll. and above fifty. He has however secured so many of the Fellows beforehand through his personal influence, that my only chance is having the question taken up on public grounds on which I hope it is not too much to hope that the Fellows of the Coll. Ph. at Cambridge may some of [illeg.] at least come up to support me, dear Henslow yrs very truly C.

[Letter written on Daubeny's printed letter of application for position at the College of Physicians]