From Leonard Horner   30 January 1855

My dear Sir

Some uncertainties about engagements next week have prevented me from sooner replying to your kind proposal of giving us the pleasure of your company, and I hope that what I now have to tell you will not prove in any degree inconvenient to you. We shall be glad if you will come to us next Monday the 5 ^th, and stay over Wednesday. On Tuesday we have a particular engagement to dinner, but we shall leave you in possession of the house, & better provided than the poor fellows at Balaklava. On Monday the Charles Darwins dine with us. Do say yes to all this—

Your’s faithfully | Leonard Horner