From Charles Roach Smith   7 March 1855

My dear Sir,

You may have heard that I have offered my London Collections to the Nation; & to the City also.

If at the present moment you could & would draw the attention of any member of the House of Commons or of either of the Trustees of the British Museum to the fact, & express your opinion on the antiquarian value of the collections, you would be doing me a service; for altho’ I may probably get as much or more from Liverpool as from London the trouble would be greater, & for my “Remains of Roman London” I should have further to go. Besides London is really the place for this collection. I do not think the Trustees would object to it, if it were recommended by persons like yourself; but in this case I cannot go canvassing, & I have not many friends who will move in the matter.

With my kind regards | I Remain, | my dear Sir | your’s sincerely | C Roach Smith