To Charles Babbage   4 April 1848

Dear Babbage

Sir W^mHooker is furnishing a Museum at Kew with all sorts of articles manfactured from vegetable products - and is very anxious to procure various kinds of paper - I told him you had a book of samples which you had purchased & that possibly you would be so good to let him know where such a one was to be found. If you have never seen this new Museum it will be worth your while to steam up to Kew & have a look at it as well as the Gardens which are getting on most famously under his superintendence.

very truly yours

J.S.Henslow