From Richard Owen   1 December 1853

My dear Sir,

I am sorry it happened that your last visit to the College was made during my absence at Sir Philp Egerton’s where I was comparing some fossil fishes. I shall be glad if I can give you any precise information relative to the teeth and bones from the Copford brick-earth when you next come to Town. I think you will be pretty sure to find me at the Museum, say between 1 & 3, and I am sure you will be a welcome visitor.

No one has done more to discover & bring together the requisite materials for a scientific knowledge of the antediluvian Mammalia of England than yourself, and those labours will never be forgotten by me so long as I am spared to contribute my mites to the sum of Human Knowledge.

With M. ^rs Owen’s kind wishes and mine,

believe me | sincerely your’s |Richard Owen