Hardwicke's letter Horsfiled when he was well enough to meet friends. In the letter, he asked Horsfield "on what day you may be able to favour me with an hour or two", and he would like a day's notice "not that there is any chance of my being out of the way, but that I would rather receive you in my sitting room", and he mentioned the purpose of his meeting "I have a great deal to ask you about the Museum at the India House and about the Zoological subjects I may be able to deposit there".