Handwritten letter from E. M. Holmes to the Professor of Botany at the Mason College of Science about the previous purchase of algological work by Mr W A Cadbury and speaks of original drawings. Holmes is selling some algological papers for under £5. He says that he has a number of duplicate lichens. Mentions W H Wilkinson, whom he does not know if he is alive still, and the now deceased Hillhouse. 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.