| My dear Mr Engels

I should have acknowledged your kind present long before this had not my husband prevented me, saying he should see you and would do so for me. I find he has | neglected it, so I must beg you now to accept my best thanks. Would you have any objection to allow the boy who attends to your waste paper basket, to save your foreign envelopes for me, | instead of burning them. My eldest boy is very anxious to make a good collection of postage stamps.

Believe me
Yours truly.
Mary S. Hall.

Whalley Range.
March 6th