From Henry Moseley 23 September 1852

Wandsworth

23 Sept

Dear Sir

I expect to be at Cambridge on the 18th and 19.th Oct. If you should not happen to be in Cambridge and would direct your Servant to let me see the diagrams I should feel obliged.

I will not fail to avail myself of an early opportunity of visiting your school and studying the plants you have adopted in teaching something of Botany to the children. Their knowledge of the things about them has always seemed to me the right kind of knowledge for poor children to have. And the getting of it, the right kind of education for them. It will be a great pleasure to me to converse with you on these subjects and I regret much that I cannot accept your kind invitation to be present at the village festivities of which you have enclosed me so tempting a programme

Yours dear Sir | truly Henry Moseley

Accept my best thanks for your kind attendance to my letter. May I ask for a copy of the printed list of wild flowers of which you speak?

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