From James Scott Bowerbank   9 January 1849

My dear Sir

On Wednesday week I have a firework party to please the young ones & shall be employed all day in preparations. On either Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday I am at your service & weather permitting should like to catch the Daguerreotype of you if possible but that must be between 11 & 2 o clk & I must know before hand that I may have the Plates ready. For our Natural History Amusements any time will suit and a Family dinner & a Bed await your service if such arrangements are convenient to you.

I am very much obliged by all the trouble you have taken about the Beaver remains & should like much to have them. By some blunder I have mislaid your first letter & M ^r Decks, that is if I have not sent M ^r Decks to Cambridge to him but of this I am not certain as I have been overwhelmed with letter writing of late.

Your letters both reached me after much travelling about & the Turtle has also safely reached Owens hands & shall be taken every care of & safely ret ^d in due course.

with renewed thanks for the trouble you have taken for me

I remain | My Dear Sir | yours most truly | J S Bowerbank

P.S. Do not take further trouble about the Beaver. I will write Mr Deck to send them me tomorrow—