From William Spence   27 April 1857

My dear Sir,

Many thanks for your Easter Accounts which I have looked over with the great pleasure it gives me to see such a record of the world of good you do, & a proof how much may be done by any Clergyman disposed to follow your example.

The discovery of twelve new Hitcham plants is highly credible to your young Botanists, each of which would derive as much delight from their discovery as if it had been of a new plant.

Pray oblige me by adding the amount of the enclosed Cheque for £5 to your Recreation Fund to which I wish every success.

You will glad to know that I had the other day a letter from M ^r Cole Secretary to the Department of Science & Art of the Privy Council Committee on Education, requesting me to superintend the formation of Model Collection of Insects for Schools, to be placed in the Educational Museum now forming at Cromwell Gardens South Kensington. Having done with active Entomology, I have transferred the complying with this request to the Entomological Society which will gladly lend their aid towards introducing an attention to Entomology in schools.

I am | my dear Sir | yours very truly | W. Spence