WCP5616

[1]¹

9. St. Mark's Crescent

Regent's Park.

N.W.

April 11. 1865.

My dear Hanbury /

I arrived here last evening from Kew, & am very comfortably established with friend Wallace. But I am excessively weak, and have had a little slow fever on each of the last three days of tropical heat.

Would you not like to come and see us some Sunday, to see ^also the lions in the adjacent forest? On what day, only Fellows and their friends are admitted, and you can inspect everything much more at your ease. I think Mr. H[andbury]². senior & Mrs. H[andbury]³. would enjoy it vastly on that day, but I should be afraid to ask them, for I know that so many English people would look without scruple on a figure of a rare animal in a book, on Sundays, but would be horrified at the idea of going to see the real thing.

[2] It seems to be considered more sinful even to look at a stuffed animal on a Sunday than a live one, or else why is the Brit[ish]. Museum closed on that day?

Why not come next Sunday (Easter) until unless you have determined on some long excursion.

Have you seen the printed Report⁴ of Cross's⁵ journey thro[ugh]' N. Granada?

Ever faithfully yours | Rich. Spruce. [signature]

Would you send me a bottle (or two bottles, if they are small) of the granulated Citrate of Magnesia?

D[aniel]. Hanbury Esq.