'Sir John Soane's Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 11 April 1866 On the principal face of the Medal is a figure of Civilisation, habited in like Minerva, in the act of prescuting two Wreaths or crowns, one, for the native the other for Colonial produce. Below is the figure of a Canoe, and round the margin is to be written NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION 1865. On'
Letter (continuation): -ink text on paper -loose -11.5 x 18.5 cm -[text] 'the reverse is the figure of the Apteryx and a Wreath to be composed of the plants indigenous to the country.'
[on sketch] 'Iron ship cable is / always formed with a / Cast iron Stud to prevent / the larger link from / collapsing when strained / thus' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Stud.' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Newcastle / a tower / antique / Emblem / of a City' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Arms of / N. Shields not / known / antique city Embm' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'The arms of these two / towns may be had of the / magistrates clerk / who will give and impression / of the Seal on / application' (ink note)