| Description | Gives details of his plan to visit Switzerland with Adele, and to meet John Howard Galton in Geneva. Gives news about Mr Potts and others at Oscott. Mentions that he plans to take the members of the Philosophical Society on a voyage along the canal to the Dudley line in the company's boat. Refers to the expedition to the North Pole which Lieutenant Parry has recently embarked on. Hubert Galton also writes in this letter. |