From William Spence   28 April 1858

My dear Sir

As I said before I actually approve of your applying my subscription to the farmhouse of Conway for your Booth—which indeed is strictly a recreation purpose.

On looking over your Easter accounts I marvel at two things—how you ever find time amidst your other labours to attend to & keep such a world of small accounts which require as much care as if they concerned hundreds of pounds; & secondly how any of your parishioners seeing how much you do for them & how largely they are in your money debt, can find in their hearts to annoy you in any way.

I am glad your Horticultural Show promises so well. But here again what endless labour is required from you, & not now only but to the end of the chapter.

Many thanks for your practical Lessons on Botany which I trust will be taken up & zealously carried out by Men of the Clergy & school-masters who have attended the Kensington Museums this Winter. The just successes which have attended your plans will surely stimulate others to adopt them.

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