Letter from William Fricker, Portsea, to James Sowerby, Mead Place, Lambeth, London Mr Hay's executors are valuing the contents of the museum for sale. As an executor himself, he believes that the work will be incompletely performed and states that the museum would have been better in Sowerby's hands. Asks for a specimen to be relayed to him via their mutual friend Holloway. 13 May 1822