From R. Crawley   Wednesday Jany 25

Dear Mr Chairman

I have a very bad cold which I wish not to increase as I am going to London tomorrow for a few days. I therefore do not make my appearance at your levee today. I hope to attend to my duties rather more regularly on my return & in the meantime I inclose a letter to Mr Lane of Magd. Coll. which I undertook to write & which you will perhaps dispatch to London with your packet this evening

Yours very truly

Richd Crawley