From John Evans   31 October 1860

Dear Prof ^r Henslow

I was in London all yesterday so that I did not receive your letter till the evening. I wish there were any chance of my being able to meet you at Hoxne tomorrow but the distance is too great and I am over head & ears in accounts— Prestwich has only just returned from a visit to M. ^r Gunn in Norfolk so that there is no chance of him either— I don’t know whether he has paid Hoxne a visit this time but think he meant to take Mundersley & Hasboro’— I was obliged to decline going with him— I hope it will not be very long before we come to a hand to hand encounter with the haches— Boucher de Perthes Homme Antedil ⁿ is certainly a most amusing work of fiction His vivid imagination has certainly done his discovery no good and he ought to be thankful that it is so well received as it is— I had a long letter from him last night but have not yet had time to do more than glance at it— His hieroglyphics require a good deal of pains to decipher them entirely— He seems much disturbed in mind at having missed seeing you at Abbeville and at your letter in the Athen ^m When I have made out the contents I must send the letter on for you to practice upon— unless you will fetch it. In great haste believe me

ever yours sincerely | John Evans.