From Leonard Horner   24 September 1855

My Dear Sir

I thank you for the Reports which are very satisfactory, & I am glad to see that Miss Richardson gives so much satisfaction. I shall send the reports to our Master at Highgate, & will recommend him to consider whether to any extent your example can be followed there. The Committee of Council would do a great good if they sent 100 copies of your reports to every one of their Inspectors for distribution. There is nothing like an example! – If any thing comes in my way the least likely to contribute to your collection of useful objects I will bear you in mind.

We came back a week ago and are likely to remain; so if you should come to town you are pretty sure to find us - & you know, I hope, how glad we should be to see you.

If Lyell returns from Yorkshire tomorrow, as the Pertz’s are here from Berlin, and the Bunbury’s from Mildenhall, Mrs Horner & I will sit down to dinner tomorrow with our six daughters and our four sons in law, with the addition of our three grandsons at dessert – a joy and blessing to my wife and me, for which we cannot be too grateful to God. The Bunburys are on their way to Malvern-

The Glasgow Meeting appears to have gone off capitally. Darwin enjoyed it much I hear. I have heard nothing of Hooker; suppose he is in Germany and M ^rs Hooker with you-

Give our kind regards to all your house & believe me

faithfully yours

Leonard Horner

I see you have changed your post town-