From Henry Moseley 18 September 1852

Dear Sir

Having been instructed by the Committee of Council on Education to report to their Lordships on the best means of providing/promoting the cause of popular education by grants for apparatus diagrams &c for to elementary schools and being informed that you have been accustomed to use for this purpose and in your lectures at Cambridge botanical diagrams of a superior kind I have thought that you would be obliging enough to allow me on the occasion of a visit which I propose to make next month to Cambridge to see some of these diagrams. It is proposed to have coloured diagrams of some of the characteristic forms of vegetation printed by means of blocks (like paper hangings) for the use of schools. I shall be very thankful for any suggestions you may be good enough to make for my guidance in respect to these botanical diagrams and with many apologies for their instrusion on your leisure

I am Rev. Sir | your faithl Ser.t | Henry Moseley