From Lyon Playfair   7 February 1857

My dear Professor

I like very much your idea of displaying cottage ornament & we will adopt it.

1. We shall have a Chamber of Horrors displaying the bad taste of Cottage Ornament from painted parrots to a bright Queen sitting on a throne with ball, sceptre &c.

2. An adjoining Compartment with good Cottage Ornament, showing how at similar prices good as well as bad taste could be cultivated.

Will you kindly illustrate as an Exhibition the Style of Cottage Ornament of your own district & as these wonderful Works of art are not very Expensive, we will furnish you with 20/- for the purpose in the first place-

Yours sincly | Lyon Playfair

N.B. The marketable price of the article should always be stated