From Leonard Horner   10 July 1855

My Dear Sir

Many thanks for the programme of the Hitcham Horticultural Show tomorrow. I wish I could be present.

By some carelessness the botanical lists you sent me a fortnight ago have been lost –they came the day we left town for a week, & the servants I suspect mistook them for waste paper. Can you send me some more copies, as well as some more of the Bill of the Show of tomorrow? I think I might distribute them with advantage. Remember that packets of any weight come free to me if directed thus:

Factories | H.M. Secretary of State | Home Department | London | L. Horner Esq.

Wherever I am all letters are forwarded to me daily—I hope you are going to have an excursion with your flock this year.

Our kind regards to Mrs Henslow—

We are going to Charles Darwin’s next Monday for a few days, & on the 21 ^st I start for the North, & do not expect to be at home until the middle of September—

Your’s faithfully | Leonard Horner