From W. B. Carpenter 16 March 1860

My dear Henslow

As I want to close my accounts for the current financial year, I shall be glad if you will instruct your man of business to call for the quarter’s salary now due, which he has not drawn as usual.— I have been rather expecting to hear what you have decided about the Examinership; Hooker thinks that you have made up your mind to retire, in which case both he and Lindley will both be candidates, and will I doubt not be elected.— I hope that you do not think that there has been any thing ungracious in the course of the Senate, which has been, I assure you, entirely dictated by regard to the advantage of the University— All the Examinerships are now doubled.

Yrs most truly| WB Carpenter