From R. G. Latham   1 March 1854

My dear Professor Henslow,

I am sorry your artist (who is so promising) should be away. I thought the accompanying could be enlarged & copied. I have not the negatives; otherwise they should be at your service. They are the property of Delamorte – who makes a business of photography. The ones you saw were from busts – which were cast from the face.

I wish much I could see you; and that so as to allow time to visit Sydenham; where all my casts & busts are – 200 in number. I wish this because there are several Museums taking up Ethnology, & if they would work together, I would let them have the needful specimens for and at slight cost – decreasing, indeed, according to the number of Museums acting together.

This by no means implies that I cannot do something “out of favor & affection” but for say such an outlay as £50 I could do a great deal. We supply casts of faces to a great extent, and a few full-sized whole figures. At present the charge of a full-length model falls on the Crystal Palace (In which I am superintending the Ethnology) only. Dundee with a Museum or two all parties parties would gain.

However, I shall have some Daguerrotypes for you at any rate, and can give you the choice of several costs.

If you come up send a line 2 days before, & I will meet you at the Eastern Counties Station, or you can meet me at the London Bridge. I come – ¼ past each hour except 11 (eleven) when it is ten minutes after.

Ever most truly yours| R .G. Latham

The Revd Professor Henslow

In W. ^m Hooker’s

Kew, Brentford