From John Evans   7 February 1857

My dear Sir

I am much obliged by your note & its enclosures and am glad to hear that your lecture went off in so satisfactorily a manner[.] I wish I could have been myself among your audience— I shall keep your prospectus or rather programme for reference as I do not know of any other list of paper producing plants so complete as yours— I am quite ready to condole with you on your want of proper diagram paper, and if you will inform me, of what width you would like it to be, I will see if we cannot alleviate your distress, by sending you a roll which will meet your future requirements.

I have had one very fine British coin presented to me since I had the pleasure of shewing you my collection, of gold & inscribed AND. who many possibly have been the (M)andubratius of Caesar—I have also acquired some interesting Jewish coins including some of Jonathan, John Hyrcanus & Alexander Jannaeus—I hope you will succeed to your satisfaction with the tessellated pavement— They are very troublesome to restore or repair— I have given M ^r Longman one of your programmes & he had desired me to convey to you his thanks for it—M ^rs Evans desires to be kindly remembered to you & I remain

My dear Sir | yours very truly | John Evans