Handwritten letter from E. M. Holmes to the Professor of Botany at the Mason College of Science. Speaks about the appointment of a new keeper, D. Cotton, at Kew who has returned Holmes' seaweed collection. Holmes says that he is going to forward them to the recipient so that they can be incorporated with the wider collection at Birmingham and speaks in depth about the details of the collection and his wishes. Letter is written on Memorandum paper 'From E. M. Holmes, PH.C., Consulting Botanist and Pharmacognosist' which is printed at the top of the page.