From Lord Ducie [1853-1860]

Dear Mr Henslow,

Your Report has reached me, and I well recollect to have read it, though I had not sufficiently mastered the details of the Sweepstakes Scheme. I think I now understand it—

I name Carrots— shall this include both white and red? [In JSH’s hand: (I have replied both JSH)]

I am a Subscriber to the amount of 30£

My people will send up Carrots Onions and Potatoes.

The figures in the three last Columns of your table refer I suppose to Weight.

I will select one allotment field— or at most two, at first, as it is better to begin gently.

How many samples of each article are to be sent up? [In JSH’s hand: (I have referred him to rule 9 JSH)]

I shall be at home on Thursday and will visit an allotment field and tell the people of the scheme.

Believe me | yrs very truly | Ducie

I shall send articles from the “Millstone pit” a fern dug soil, much more fertile than the contiguous Coal measures.

[In JSH’s hand: (I have asked him what his Allottee Soc. ^y is to be called? JSH)]