From R. F. Hohenacker   3 July 1857

Sir

You may kindly excuse it, if I take liberty of addressing you a petition.

Since several years I am collecting material for the edition of a collection of the different varieties of our sorts of corn. I have also already several interesting numbers for it touching the much ventilated “Aegilops-Question” and should feel very happy to receive from your kindness, if this will be possible, either 100 dried specimens of your bastard of Aegilops squarrosa and Triticum turgidum, or at least a quantity of seed which would yield them. In the case you could fulfill my request, I would beg you to remit your request to “Charles Young Esq. ^re 8 High Street, Islington, London” and to charge him, to forward it to me.

If perhaps in the meantime you have come in procession of other interesting forms of this kind, you would greatly oblige me by adding them to your parcel.

I shall be very happy if at any time I should be able in return to do any service which will be in my power.

With great esteem I have the honor to be,

Sir, | your very obd ^t Serv ^t | R.F.Hohenacker