May 25 – 8 AM
Harley Street <1>
My dear Sir
Your note & Enclosures though dated May 23 <2> did not reach my hands till last night when I found them on my table. If you and your Solicitor will call at my house this Evening at 8 PM I shall be ready to make the affidavit in the form in which you will now receive it Enclosed <3>
Yours try
JFW Herschel
Notes:
1. London.
2. See Doc. No: 06976.
3. Herschel’s affidavit for WHFT’s case against James Henderson, photographer, London, was reprinted in Notes and Queries, 8 July 1854, pp.35–36. For the manuscript, see Public Record Office, London C31/1048,733.