From John Phillips   9 March 1858

My dear Henslow,

My friend Rev G. F. De Teissier Rector of Brampton Northampton is desirous of doing in his parish some of the good you do, by encouraging good & innocent tasks & employment. He is a Botanist & a good man in other ways. Will you send him such of your pamphlets as you can spare to encourage his proceedings?

I wish you would be persuaded to go on with British Fossil Plants. I have a curious [illeg. illeg.] fossil from the Wealden thus [sketch of plant] very fibrous in lines up & down in parallel to the capillary sutures. What is it?

John Phillips