Letter from William Frend, Stoke Newington, to William Samuel Stratford RN, Metropolitan, Verulam's Buildings, Grays Inn, London ' I am very much obliged to you for the birds and congratulate you on their having arrived in such good condition. My girls have made up a parcel of books which they say have staid beyond their time with me but this will not prevent me from asking for a loan of Zachs when I have leisure to look at his very interesting work.' 27 October 1828