My dear Sir,

I am just off to spent a week in Wilts, within easy walk to Stonehenge, & where my address will be Brigmerston House, near Amesbury.¹ Meanwhile I was about to send you some very interesting remarks on elephants, published in the Proc. As. Soc. B., which I received last week from Calcutta.² But I lent them to Bartlett on Saturday, & this morning he cannot put his hand on them so I have asked him to forward them to you by post.³ I hear there is yet a probability of our getting the African 2-horn rhinoceros in the Z.G. It was said that the King of Italy had purchased it, partly by exchange for a pair of giraffes and the rest in cash, but he wishes to throw the whole trouble and expence & risk of transit of both the rhinoceros & the giraffes on the vendor, & so the negociation was broken off, as this would make rather too large a hole in the £1000.⁴

If you feel well enough, you should take an early opportunity to see the hoolock Gibbon in the Z.G., which is best seen in the morning, when Bartlett would turn it loose that you might see its actions among the trees.⁵

Yours very truly | E Blyth