Lacock
Feb. 21 – 1869
My Dear Charles
I can leave the things with Mr Awdry if you wish it, but will it not do as well if I leave them in a sealed packet on the dining room table along with your letters and law reports? The packet would be quite safe. – The Secretary of the Law Reports <1> has not answered my letter. I therefore conclude that it is all right and that no more of them will come. I expected to hear that you had paid a flying visit to Rome being now so near it. If you return by the Brenner and Munich, perhaps I might manage to meet you at Munich as I think of travelling by that line, and we might go from Munich to see the quarries of Solenhofen <2> where all the wonderful fossils are formed –I think of starting early in March.
Your affte
Father
Notes:
1. Hopwood, secretary of the Council for the publication of the Law Reports. [See Doc. No: 09495].
2. Lithographic slate quarries in Bavaria, notably the site of Archaeopteryx fossil discoveries by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869) in 1861.