9 Cleveland [Place] <1>
Augt 31. 1839
Sir
I have pleasure in sending the Copies of a work to which you did me the honour of subscribing.
If the information collected & the arrangement of data – meet your approbation it will exceedingly gratify both the Author & the Publisher, a recommendation of yours that the “Description of the Melksham Fossil” <2> should be properly given – was conveyed to me by Mr Provis <3> and certainly did stimulate our endeavour to do justice to the subject
Most respectfully I Remain Sir Your obedient Servant
Charles Empson
P S
I hope to be in your Neighbourhood on Monday – but uncertain if I can call at Laycock Abbey the copies are sent by your servant.–
Notes:
1. Text torn away.
2. Empson completed the subject of this subscription, Description of the Fossil Skull of an Ox, discovered in May 1838, at Melksham, Wilts: with a Geological Sketch of the river Avon, in the bed of which it was found (London: 1839). [See Doc. No: 03802].
3. John Provis, geologist, Chippenham.