From W. B. Carpenter 11 February 1859

My dear Henslow

I am very glad to find that our supply of paper has proved acceptable. I daresay that we shall have some more at the end of this years, if the Examiners do not bone the blank leaves for themselves, as I confess I used to do, not so much for economy, as because the paper is pleasanter to write on than any I can get elsewhere. The trifle that would be allowed by the purchasers of the waste paper, is not worth speaking about as the Audit Office (which pulls me up with a folio sheet of enquiries for an error of 2. ^d in the addition of our postage account) will not know anything of the transaction.

Believe me |yours most faithfy | WB Carpenter

[P.S.] I am not quite sure of the legal interpretation of the phrase in Clause 33 of the Charter “eligible as an Examiner”. It is quite clear that you could not be elected after the 9 ^th of April 1861; but if elected in Feb. 1861, I suppose that you might serve out your year.