From Richard Owen   21 March 1858

My dear Sir,

I beg you will accept both mine and M. ^rs Owen’s best thanks for the two bushels of York-regents which safely reached their destination[.] We had one dish of them boiled & liked the flavor very much: the rest will serve for my new plot of potatoe-ground and I hope to see, at last, a crop free from the disease.

Your section of the locality from which the leptorhine Rhinoceros and Elephant remains were obtained which you last discovered is a very instructive one, and I beg to return you my best thanks for it.

You have done a great deal, and very valuable work, in the elucidation of the geology and fossils of your Country of Essex, and I hope you may long have health & strength to enjoy such pleasing and elevating pursuits.

I began my course of Lectures at the Gov. ^t School of Science in Jermyn St. last week, with a good attendance.

Believe me | always truly your’s | Rich. ^d Owen