Cairo Street |Warrington
21 January 1853
My dear Sir,
I dare say you have forgotten a promise I made you at the Cambridge Meeting of the British Association, that I would send you a few fossils &c for your little Parish or School Museums. I have never forgotten it; but not until this week have I been able finally to sort out my duplicates. In the mean time the establishment of our Free Museum here, has seemed to have a prior claim upon me. So I send you what I can, wishing they were more & better, but hoping that some of your country parishioners may find sources of instruction & pleasure in them.
I have sent off a little box by rail, & remain
Yours respectfully | Phillip P. Carpenter
[Written on a notice advertising Christian publications and incl. the hymn ‘Nearer to Thee’]
[Enclosure: Report entitled “The Shells of California” by Philip P. Carpenter Cairo St., Warrington Oct. 4 th 1854.
Requested by BAAS ]
Cambridge University Library, MSS Add. 8177: 63(ii)
Please cite as “HENSLOW-369,” in Ɛpsilon: The Correspondence of John Stevens Henslow accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/henslow/letters/letters_369